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Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches. Paul Engle

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There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved. Peter L. Berger

Values Community Churches Distinguishes Religious Vocabulary General Mainly Between Involved Continuum Handling Heavier Dosage

I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if you're married. In a church, in a hundred years no one would ask. Peter Malkin

Alone Time You Church Synagogue Hundred Hundred Years Spent Churches Married Would Someone No-One Always Go Years Lot Ask Asking

I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches. Rachel Cusk

Church Spirituality Feelings Think Other Churches Consolation About Adopt Rather More Could Feel Like Catholic Catholicism Cattle Still Go Mould Brand Get Any Form Formed Use

We lived on a farm outside a town of about 900 people. My father was the principal of the elementary school. It was a typical Southern town - there are a lot of churches, and it's dry. Robert Boswell

People School Father Farm Typical Churches About Outside Town Principal Dry Lot Southern Elementary Lived Elementary School

I see apostasy in many ways occurring in Evangelical churches that really aren't teaching the truth of God's word. I do believe that some churches have become entertainment centers and a teaching a type of prosperity Gospel rather than teaching God's word. Robert Jeffress

A lot of these liberal churches that harbor illegal immigrants who are criminals say they are following the example of Jesus. They are following the Jesus of their imagination rather than the Jesus of the Bible. Robert Jeffress

Bible Example Imagination Liberal Criminals Say Churches Immigrants Following Rather Lot Than Harbor Illegal Who Illegal Immigrants Jesus

I'm sort of agnostic. I grew up Catholic and switched to Episcopalian in college because I sang in churches to have money to buy pizza and french fries. Robert Lopez

Buy Money College Churches French French Fries Catholic Sort Because Up Fries Grew Pizza Episcopalian Sang Agnostic Switched

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency. Robert Rainy

Forgiveness Strict Church Consistency Churches Various Had Perhaps Principle However Testimony Been Sins Certain Should Novelty Receive Applied

Everything you do on Facebook will affect what comes in your view in the future. If you like crappy things that you don't care about, you'll see more crappy brands that you don't care about in the future, and it might even affect your experiences when you walk into bars, churches, schools, shopping malls, etc. Robert Scoble

Future You Facebook Shopping Walk Care Will Everything Churches See About More Like Schools Affect Malls Brands dont Care Experiences Crappy Etc Might View Your Bars Even Things

Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches. Rodney Stark

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It is important for American congregations to hold their churches accountable for what their money does in Africa. Roger Ross Williams

Money Important Churches Does Accountable American Africa Hold

The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness. Sabine Baring-Gould

People Beauty Brittany Churches Latter Charm Costumes Remarkable Former Interest Customs Full Found Peculiar

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt. Salvatore J. Cordileone

Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves. Sean Durkin

Work Religion Sports People Churches Find Follow Something Generally Than Any Just Themselves Who Company Teams Larger Belong Need

Churches, by the very reason of their structures, are monolithic and do not adapt easily. But in many cases, they, too, have allowed themselves to become allied or even part of an unjust establishment or system. Sean MacBride

Become Unjust Too Churches Easily System Cases Structures Allied Allowed Part Very Establishment Themselves Reason Many Even Adapt

Who shall resist Anti-Christ when he comes if we show such patience towards the vices and crimes of his precursors? By such leniency, we encourage kings to become tyrants and tempt them to withdraw every privilege and all jurisdiction from the Churches. Thomas Becket

As we continue down the path of automation, virtually every city will have 24-hour convenience stores, 24-hour libraries, 24-hour banks, 24-hour churches, 24-hour schools, 24-hour movie theaters, 24-hour bars and restaurants, and even 24-hour shopping centers. Thomas Frey

The church we grew up playing at was not one of those churches known for its music, but it was just this all-around energy that would be happening because, at the same time we'd be playing in church, we'd be playing in the city jazz band under Reggie Edwards. Thundercat

Churches need to be intentional about reaching the next generation by creating templates for young people to see that there is a stepping stone for leadership in this church. Tony Evans

Leadership Generation People Church Young Churches See About Stepping Stepping Stone Reaching Stone Intentional Young People Next Creating Next Generation Need

The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people. Tullian Tchividjian

People Our Churches Complex Religious Hurting Environment Cheerfulness Answers Questions Pat Produces Required Painful Riddle Many Lives Suffocating

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