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«If God existed as an all-powerful being, He would not need the money that faithful believers donate to their churches»
«If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches? Lemuel K»
«And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.»
«For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? / But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.»
«GARGOYLE, n. A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, commonly fashioned into a grotesque caricature of some personal enemy of the architect or owner of the building. This was especially the case in churches and ecclesiastical structures generally, in which the gargoyles presented a perfect rogues' gallery of local heretics and controversialists. Sometimes when a new dean and chapter were installed the old gargoyles were removed and others substituted having a closer relation to the private animosities of the new incumbents.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
animosities, architect, Buildings, caricatures, chapter, churches, deans, eaves, ecclesiastical, gallery, gargoyle, Heretics, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, install, local, mediaeval, owner, personal relation, Personal relations, presented, projecting, spout, spouted, spouting, spouts, substituted, The Building, The Dean, This Was
«If the FBI's motivating factor for busting down the Koresh compound was child abuse, how come we never see Bradley tanks smashing into Catholic churches?»
Author: Bill Hicks
(Comedian)
| Keywords:
abuse, Bradley, busted, busting, busts, Catholic, Catholic churches, child abuse, churches, compound, factor, FBI, how come, motivating, smash, smashed, smashing, tanks
«If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
| Keywords:
admission, admissions, churches, everyone else, game, pay, politics, The Game
«A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
churches, concerts, fairs, good sense
«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.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Church,
Religion
| Keywords:
Christian Churches, churches, enslave, institutions, inventions, Jewish, monopolize, monopolized, other than, set up, terrify, Turkish
«If to do were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages prince's palaces»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
chapels, churches, cottages, palaces, prince
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