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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

Quote by Madalyn Murray O'Hair about state

The relationships that people have that are sexual, psychological, emotional these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.

Quote by Madalyn Murray O'Hair about opinion, parents, sex, rightness, people

Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.

Quote by Carl Olson about religion

When asked for the main reasons I became Catholic seven years ago, I provide two the Eucharist and the authority of the Church.

Quote by Carl Olson about faith, authority

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.

Quote by Thomas Paine about opinion, christianity, power, human imperfections

My mind is my own church.

Quote by Thomas Paine about mind

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about parents, charity

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family a domestic church.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about marriage, gifts, family

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about question, man

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about dignity, duty, word

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

Quote by William Penn about religion, bitter

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

SQuote by Saint Thomas Aquinas about faith, contentment

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

Quote by Stephen Harold Spender about religion, sun

Railways and the Church have their critics, but both are best ways of getting a man to his ultimate destination.

Quote by Wilbert Vere Awdry about opinion, man

How can we fight against the Gods when in every palm rises a church of the eternal pray?

Quote by Ionuț Caragea about destiny, gods, pray, fight