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I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
I know only one Church: it is the society of men.
My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.
They spend their lives fighting against priests and then give prayerbooks as gifts.
They believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead
Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.
Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.
Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church ...
A high church for the true mediocre.
I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.
People who believe in buried gods,' said Louis.
'Do you believe in buried gods, Detective Walsh?'
'I'm Episcopalian. I believe in everything.
Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am. I am evangelical.
Apparently, they believe they're gods.
They serve God well, who serve his creatures.
In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church.
If Vulcans had a church, they'd be Catholics.
Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.
Every agnostic has a minister, Mike. Otherwise, they's be atheists.
I was raised in the church.
Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.
The atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.
for the French clergy,
Legalists and theological experts with "lips close to God and hearts far away from him" (Isa. 29:13). The world hardly needs more of these.
Megachurches. I can't be the only one frightened when our houses of worship sound like they could take on Godzilla.
Who care. They are those who, while they love the altar and delight in the sacrifice, are yet unable to reconcile
Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish.
My dad was a non-denominational preacher, actually a Congregationalist which is really where all congregations come to congregate. That's why it's called a Congregationalist. Later on in life, he just became a non-denominational preacher, kind of a fire and brimstone type guy. That's how I grew up.
What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place.
Angels and ministers of grace defend us.
There's a bunch od huge churchs clustered together, trying to blend in with all the family-themed restaurants, because salvation is as easy as chicken wings, I guess.
The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly goods. It became more like an additional arm of secular administration.
The Shepherds and the Angels
I was born into a family of preachers.
Mistress Agatha Brown, she was Church of England, but she just done gone to the Catholics. And it seems they don't hold with places like 3½, not even when they're decently run.
You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.
The evangelicals ... If all they want is gold Cadillacs and sex and so on, no big problem.
I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.
Pastors spend a good bit of time helping people with their sin. Who helps them with their sin?
For me, the Church is the enemy.
I know. I seriously need to just give up men entirely. I wonder if Episcopalians can enter
convents?
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.
Personally, I am a church-going Christian. I love my church, my congregation; it's my favorite place to be.
An unholy church! it is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hell's laughter, heaven's abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church.
My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
A priest? I said.
A monk or some such. One of those worker guys. Liberation theowhateveritis.
Theologian, said the other.
One of those guys who thinks that Jesus was on welfare.
Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.
I am just an ordinary Catholic.
Tend to choose what is popular over what is right when they are in conflict. They desire to fit in both at church and outside of church; they care more about what people think of their actions (like church attendance and giving) than what God thinks of their hearts and lives.
There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.
Beware of bad Catholics.
Pastors are over-extended taking care of a few hundred sheep in their church
This is a church of tenderness and arrogance, of sparkling differences and human failings. There is no unmixing the two.
I'm a lapsed altar boy.
A type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls.
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.
congress of angels.
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
Perhaps I should have been one [some sort of a professional religious]; I like to think a monk notable for his austerities, the voice of one crying in the wilderness; but more probably a tiresome Unitarian in Walsall who writes incessantly to the local paper.
I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.
Psychologically, I'm a Roman Baptist.
I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of men in every other gathering of God's children.
Congregation is composed of people, who, upon entering a church, leave behind what people on the street name or call them.
Quakers are terrific.
Hey, I was raised in the church.
Regular church attenders tend to come to our places of worship to feel better, not to be hit with the unfamiliar, the uncomfortable, the threatening.
Christians. They're determined to rid the land of any who worship the Horned One. Murdering all the druids, burning the temples, sometimes whole villages, and knocking over the standing stones."
The Lady's face hardened. "This god of peace and love certainly likes to bathe the land in blood.
My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.
Respectable Protestant denominations retreated inside...leaving...unaffiliated madwomen to evangelize alfresco...
Because people understand that the diocese is trying to help the members of that group feel more connected to their church, the church they belong to by virtue of their baptism.
You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His face.
As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.
Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason
Don't put labels on people. See them as people who Christ died for.
By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside which we believe that no one is saved.
Our Quakers love us. we're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.
The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists.
The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.
We are a heathen company, more devoted to the customs and the Holy days than to the Holiness itself. We find more pleasure in the song and dance of God than in the piety.
The drunk kids, the catholics They're all about the same They're waiting for something Hoping to be saved
God-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it.
The angels must often be astonished at us and think we are the strangest creatures that well can be, yet they love us, and therefore they take a great interest in that Gospel that promotes our highest good.
These guys [the Catholic church] make Enron look like altar boys.
I am told that only two groups carry very little negative baggage inside of Christianity: Franciscans and Quakers.
My wife, Dixie, is evangelical Christian. We met in the Reagan White House, when she was a student intern. We're members of the Horizon Christian Fellowship Church.
There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.
It is often the parishioners, the men and women in the pews, who set the tone.
Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man.
Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.
the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.
Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.
I still have deep respect for the evangelical tradition and feel, in many ways, close to the Baptist roots of my childhood, although I've been an Episcopalian throughout my adult life and a regular churchgoer.
I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.
I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades ... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.
Lots of Orthodox go to church every Sunday but don't know much about the faith. Yet they know that there is something that they don't know much about.