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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. (Grey Jane)
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook. (Grey Jane)
The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them. (Grey Jane)
A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone. (Grey Jane)
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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there? (Grey Jane)
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity. (Grey Jane)
The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people. (Grey Jane)
I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. (Grey Jane)
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after service. (Grey Jane)
The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years. (Grey Jane)
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. (Grey Jane)
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. (Grey Jane)
A little, round, fat, oily man of God. (Grey Jane)
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always. (Grey Jane)
Though the church has many critics, it has no rivals. (Grey Jane)
Sign in lot: Church parking only. We will not forgive those who trespass against us. (Grey Jane)
The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed. (Grey Jane)
She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God. (Grey Jane)
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. (Grey Jane)
The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion. (Grey Jane)
The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches. (Grey Jane)
The church absolutely loved it, ... One kid wrote, 'Every time I come in here, if I'm sad, it makes me happy.' (Grey Jane)
Our whole life revolved around the church, so that the only time I had a break from all that was when I would escape into the piano, ... So I created this whole other world that they couldn't get into. (Grey Jane)
I'm - my love - I love my church. I love my church and through my church I see my country as the greatest gift God gave us, freedom. (Grey Jane)
“See you at church.” (Grey Jane)
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