As some to church repair Not for the doctrine but the music there. These equal syllables alone require Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion of which the rewards are distant and which is animated only by faith and hope will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances by stated calls to worship and the salutary influence of example.
In our Ashrams of East and West places of spiritual retreat we begin with what we call The Morning of the Open Heart in which we tell our needs…. We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member who listened to it for the first time was: Good gracious have we all the disrupted people in the country here? My reply was: No you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed. In the ordinary church it is suppressed by respectability by a desire to a appear better than we really are.
The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state and never its tool.
All national institutions of churches whether Jewish Christian or Turkish appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind and monopolize power and profit.
As some to church repair Not for the doctrine but the music there. These equal syllables alone require Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
There is no salvation outside the church.
Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his friends for his life.
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
RECTOR n. In the Church of England the Third Person of the parochial Trinity the Cruate and the Vicar being the other two.
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.
Where God hath a temple the Devil will have a chapel.
I like the silent church before the service begins better than any preaching.
The neer to the church the further from God.
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of church going.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion of which the rewards are distant and which is animated only by faith and hope will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances by stated calls to worship and the salutary influence of example.
In our Ashrams of East and West places of spiritual retreat we begin with what we call The Morning of the Open Heart in which we tell our needs…. We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member who listened to it for the first time was: Good gracious have we all the disrupted people in the country here? My reply was: No you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed. In the ordinary church it is suppressed by respectability by a desire to a appear better than we really are.
The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state and never its tool.
All national institutions of churches whether Jewish Christian or Turkish appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind and monopolize power and profit.
Going to church doesnt make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage makes you a car.
It is not the man who has too little but the man who craves more that is poor.
Going to church doesn?t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.