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religious peculiar charity
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature. Charles Caleb Colton
religious war ambition
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of aggrandizement; and all wars of aggression, undertaken for the purpose of forcing an assent to this or that set of religious opinions; all such wars are criminal in their very outset, and have hypocrisy for their common base.
religious struggle blessed
How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy! Charles Dickens
religious hallucinations apes
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time. Charles Stross
religious children civilization
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.
religious college pigs
A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated?
religious hype world
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God. Charles Stanley
religious jesus thinking
Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus. Charles Spurgeon
religious teaching men
We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see all religious teaching built upon the solid rock of truth and not upon the sand of imagination. At the same time, our grand object is not the revision of opinions, but the regeneration of natures. We should bring men to Christ, not to our own particular views of Christianity.
christianity born dies
We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.
christianity justification turns
Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns Charles Simeon
christianity injury policy
Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us. Benjamin Franklin
christianity christ discipleship
Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
christianity communicate walks
Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God. Bill Hybels
christianity judaism nationalism
The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal. Arthur Miller
christianity unhealthy
There is something very unhealthy about Christianity. Adolf Hitler
christianity pale
Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean. Algernon Charles Swinburne
christianity tested trusted
A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted. Adrian Rogers
clergy died fast involved politics threatened unto
So many have threatened to fast unto death, but no one has died so far. I don't think the clergy should get involved in politics like this. Harry Gunatillake
clergy defend religion secured
The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary. Abdolkarim Soroush
clergyman torch village
There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman Victor Hugo
clergy confusion encouraged experience god love priest reference teachers
When I was a young priest in the 1960s and 1970s, there was much experimentation and confusion in the Church. Teachers and clergy were encouraged to communicate an experience of God's love, but to do it without reference to the Creed, the sacraments, or the tradition. Donald Wuerl
clergy direct sincerity using
If you need help, look to clergy who do not spout their own beliefs but direct you in sincerity by using the Bible.
clergy engaged next teachers temples throughout volunteers
Over this next month, clergy from the pulpits, teachers in the classrooms, volunteers throughout our churches, mosques, temples and synagogues will be engaged in this effort, David Saperstein
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A number of members of our local government, administration and local clergy will all go in and be guest readers.
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Even with extensive coverage of clergy misconduct over the past decade, congregations still make no plans for handling moral failure until it happens. Then it's too late. Eric Reed
clergy men
For clergy are men as well as other folks. Henry Fielding