#church

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#am #baptist #became #christ #church

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#church #conduit #god #i #i think

It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#catholic #catholic church #church #creed #dogma

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#between #catholicism #church #conscience #faith

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#bible #blocks #church #emancipation #greatest

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#church #i #opinions #other #pastor

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#block #canon #church #emancipation #greatest

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#contemptuous #degrading #degree #last #regard

Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'. ↗

— Edith Stein

#every #holy #holy spirit #living #means

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being. ↗

— Sting

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