#church

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#bad #care #church #does #happen

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church? ↗

— John Calvin

#convictions #faith #implicitly #merely #nothing

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#children #church #concentrate #feel #highest

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#church #few #forget #free #go

I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that. ↗

— Fantasia Barrino

#church #connection #different #felt #god

I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe. ↗

— Lance Bass

#believe #christian #christian church #church #hate

I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me. ↗

— Wes Bentley

#consider #i #me #myself #person

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most. ↗

— Annie Besant

#christian #church #despise #evil #greatest

Art, that great undogmatized church. ↗

— Ellen Key

#church #great

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian. ↗

— Rachel Blanchard

#british #churchill #entirely #his #indian