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“Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.”

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Author:Jackson Browne

“Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.”

Giving Heart Children Church Knowing My Heart Blessing Conscience Catholic Silent Bottom Believer Catholic Church Child Of God Non Believer

Author:Pope Francis

“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.”

People Children Today Mother Church Salvation Regions Priests Hypocrite Sanctity Single Mother Sanctity Of Marriage

Author:Pope Francis

“I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball." "Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.”

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Author:Criss Jami

“If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.”

Ifs Way Children Church Our Children Your Children Wrong Things

Author:Ed Stetzer

“A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with the worst chapter in American history, segregation, deaths of children in church bombings, George Wallace. That, to me, was so hurtful.”

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Author:John McCain

“Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold.”

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Book:God's Good News

Source: God's Good News

“For me this world was neither so high nor so low as the Church would have it; chequered over with its wild light shadows, I could love it and all the children of it, more dearly, perhaps, because it was not all light.”

World Children Light Church This World Lows Shadow

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards [...] and here was an almond tree in bloom before me: I must reach out and cut a flowering branch. For, by believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired, whatever we have not irrigated with our blood to such a degree that it becomes strong enough to stride across the somber threshold of nonexistence.”

“Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion.”

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Book:Commentary on Galatians

Source: Commentary on Galatians

“Let the church come to God in the strength of a perfect weakness, in the power of a felt helplessness and a child-like confidence, and then, either she has no strength, and has no right to be, or she has a strength that is infinite. Then and thus, will she stretch out the rod over the seas of difficulty that lie before her, and the waters shall divide, and she shall pass through, and sing the song of deliverance.”

Children Lying Song Felt Water Church Perfect Sea Weakness Difficulty Infinite Divides Helplessness Deliverance

Book:Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851

Source: Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851