#church

The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#centuries #christian #christian church #christians #church

We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#been #burned #church #control #deal

As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country. ↗

— George Edmund Street

#country #equally #essential #importance #necessary

I put myself in the hands of Christ, who is the true leader of the church. ↗

— Pope Theodoros II

#church #hands #i #leader #myself

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#cities #fills #heaven #itself #kingdoms

I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#church #help #i #mind #old

I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#catholic #catholic church #church #homosexuality #homosexuals

I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever people use to speak with their god or to receive spiritual inspiration is good for the country. But the symbolism of it at ground zero, within two blocks or three blocks, I believe is wrong. ↗

— Peter King

#blocks #churches #country #god #good

I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#church #europe #got #his #i

Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#i #i think #only #think #two