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The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
Angelina Grimke
Obedience
Power
Blind Obedience
Submission
Ought
Despotism
Civil
Unqualified
Ecclesiastical
Doctrine
Blind
Any
Human
Whether
Place
Republicans
Human Power
Among
Christians
In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.
Pope Francis
Today
God
Marriage
People
Church
Single
Sanctity
Our
Those
Ecclesiastical
Hypocrites
Priests
Conceived
Because
Mothers
Were
Salvation
Children
Region
Separate
Who
Those who read the Scriptures and judge for themselves, not resting satisfied with the perverted application of the text, do not find the distinction that theology and ecclesiastical authorities have made in the condition of the sexes.
Lucretia Mott
Judge
Made
Resting
Satisfied
Distinction
Those
Sexes
Find
Ecclesiastical
Read
Condition
Text
Authorities
Scriptures
Themselves
Theology
Who
Application
Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time.
Eugene Kennedy
Time
Lost
Claim
Relic
Pocket
Ecclesiastical
Mystery
Clearly
Most
Because
Offered
Fixed
Manufacture
Products
Moment
Resemble
Why
Watches
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.
Francis Schaeffer
Relationship
Important
Living
Ecclesiastical
Only
Point
Go
Ends
Themselves
Starting
Starting Point
Position
The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Thought
Else
Everything
Earth
Everything Else
System
Thousand
Thousand Years
About
Ecclesiastical
More
Leaders
Particularly
Years
Fixed
Revolves
Rome
The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.
Lionel Blue
Spiritual
World
Secular
Cares
Ecclesiastical
More
Materialist
Than
Just
Acknowledge
Thinks
Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures.
Andres Serrano
People
Some People
Some
Ecclesiastical
Klan
Figures
Compared
Images
Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers.
Charles Buck
Day
Sunday
Appropriate
Seventh
Constantly
Ecclesiastical
Both
Sabbath
Sacred
Writers
Never
Name
Primitive
Although
Lord
Times
Saturday
Differently
Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel.
Ethan A. Hitchcock
Truth
Good
Dared
High
Ecclesiastical
Only
Could
He
Accept
Because
Proved
Authority
Commonly
Notwithstanding
Who
Disregard