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“There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not dignitaries, because in the rational religion of every individual there does not yet exist a church as a universal union (omnitudo collectiva).”

Doe Body Individual Church Doubt Teacher Needed Universal Unions Invisible Rational Servant Officials No Doubt

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.”

Wells Kind Christian Church Doubt Atheism Very Good Positive Atheism No Doubt Sinner

Book:The Collected Works of Langston Hughes

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes

“If the Savior had come back to earth at the beginning of the fifth century A.D., I doubt whether he would have recognized the Christian Church as the one that claimed descent from that which he had established, so far had it gone astray.”

Ifs Earth Christian Church Gone Doubt Century Savior Fifth Descent Christian Church

Author:Milton R. Hunter

“Emerging church leaders are not impressed by those who defend the Christian faith by promoting definitive answers to convince those who doubt the faith.”

Christian Church Answers Leader Doubt Convince Impressed Promoting Emerging Christian Faith Church Leaders Not Impressed

Author:Eddie Gibbs

“I have a friend, a pastor, who applied with me and 419 other people for 25 seats on a special advisory board. Though I believed she was infinitely more qualified than me, she wasn't selected and I was. When I saw her at her church weeks later, I asked her how she felt about the decision. While disappointment, self-doubt and defeat would have been normal reactions to the Board's decision, my friend said she felt great. 'How come?' I asked. She said with a smile, 'I just figured God had something better in store for me.'”

“To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.”

Feelings Church Doubt Meetings Blank Herds Thoughts And Feelings Negation

Book:Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)

Source: Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)

“There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and that the people have a right to a substantive part in its discipline and government.”

People Government Church Principles Doubt Discipline No Doubt Presbyterians Vests

Book:What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855

Source: What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855