“Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.” ShouldMayPersonsMadeCountryYoungCultureChurchEnemyPiecesDiseaseLowsRageNeighborCuresTemptationDirtyNeighborhoodGossipConfessionSplitsIndulgeMaliceThoroughIndulge InDegeneratesFrivolousPestsImbecilityDirty Business Author:J. G. Holland
“Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.” RealizingChurchTeachDoctrineConfessionEvangelical Author:J. I. Packer
“While we destroyed the Centre Party, we have not only brought thousands of priests back into the Church, but to millions of respectable people we have restored their faith in their religion and in their priests. The union of the Evangelical Church in a single Church for the whole Reich, the Concordat with the Catholic Church, these are but milestones on the road which leads to the establishment of a useful relation and a useful co operation between the Reich and the two Confessions.” PeopleTwoWholeChurchPartyMillionsAtheismRelationCatholicUnionsDestroyedOperationsPriestsEstablishmentConfessionCentreRespectableCatholic ChurchEvangelicalMilestone Book:The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939 Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939
“I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith.” GivingLongChristianFoundBeliefChurchUnitedDifficultyComplicatedStatementsDoctrineArticlesUsualConfessionReservationsChristian Doctrine Author:Abraham Lincoln