#churches

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#democracy #dullness #failure #general #general welfare

No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#community #conscience #i #i think #just

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches. ↗

— George Whitefield

#churches #heathen #jesus #jesus christ #mere

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#authors #best #churches #colleges #common

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches. ↗

— George Edmund Street

#churches #comparative #contrasted #country #distinctive

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#churches #cult #cults #look #own

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#church #churches #closed #down #merged

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#churches #dominated #gays #history #life

All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#churches #contain #god #only #religions

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#become #believing #churches #once #organizations