Best church & feelings Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.”

People Feelings Faces Church Wall Purity Mecca

Author:Michael J. Fox

“It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away.”

Feelings Church Gone Daughter France Frightening Elders Gone Away

Author:John Wilkins

“Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.”

Men Doe Feelings Church Development Solitude Communion Worldly Cemetery Recourse

Author:Andre Malraux

“Christianity in our country is a lot like what the Ducksters profess. No longer doctrinaire or demanding, the mishmash of pop-religion practiced in churches across America is an extension of the therapeutic culture: festooned with feelings, mostly misdirected. Untempered by intelligent interpretation of scripture... American pop-theology: light on doctrine, heavy on hellfire and damnation.”

Country Feelings Light America Culture Church Christianity Intelligent Heavy Pops Scripture Theology Doctrine Our Country Interpretation Extensions Therapeutic Damnation

Author:Ilana Mercer

“It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.”

Ifs Feelings Jesus Christ Church Imagine Jesus Christ

Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“The doctrine of the Church cannot be fully understood unless it is tested by mind and feelings, by intellect and emotions, by every power of the investigator. Every Church member is expected to understand the doctrine of the Church intelligently. There is no place in the Church for blind adherence.”

Mind Feelings Church Emotion Members Understood Blind Intellect Expected Doctrine Tested Investigators Adherence Church Members

Author:John Andreas Widtsoe

“I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.”

Thinking Men May Stills Matter Feelings Religion Community Church Moral Enemy Support Higher Office Eternal Consequence Leaving Insult Makers Church And State Scoffers

Book:Lincoln on Lincoln

Source: Lincoln on Lincoln

“You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman.”

Humans Wells May Whole Feelings Humanity Interest Church Principles Bird Instinct Feathers Congressman

Book:Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

Source: Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

“When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on the Friday,culminated. I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was "Would God it were evening!" It was no day of rest, but a day of texts, of catechisms (Watts'), of tracts about converted swearers, godly charwomen, and edifying deaths of sinners saved.... There was but one rosy spot, in the distance, all that day: and that was "bed-time," which never could come too early!”

Ifs Firsts Children Feelings Eye Religion Wish Church Morning Bed Distance Saved Spots Evening Sinner Sunday Godly Friday My Wish Rosy Sunday Morning Catechism Day Of Rest Bed Time

Author:Lewis Carroll

“Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the Lord Jesus had never entered her heart. Her piety was an act of war against Protestant ascendancy. ...The teachings of the Church did not interest her, except as they were a rebuke to others.”

Heart War Feelings Christian Jesus Interest Church Christianity Lord Teaching Mercy Grandmother Aggressive Traits Dominant My Grandmother Piety Protestants Rebuke Ascendancy

Author:Mary McCarthy

“If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states. That is why the practice of meditation, looking deeply, is so important.”

Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition

“one trouble with all the churches is that they have too many incurable saints in them, men and women who pray too much and do too little, who cannot forget their own selfish salvation enough to look after other people's without feeling their own spiritual pulse all the time they are doing it. Of late I've sometimes suspected that it is nearly as debilitating to stay in the church all the time as it would be to stay in a hospital all the time.”

People Men Looks Littles Sometimes Enough Feelings Would Be Spiritual Religion Church Forget Too Much Trouble Praying Late Men And Women Salvation Saint Selfish Hospitals Pulse

Author:Corra May Harris

“I was immersed in comfortable Christianity. Years ago, I found myself living what seemed like the American church dream - pastoring a large church, living in a large house, and surrounded by all the comforts this world has to offer. But inside I had a sinking feeling that I was missing the point.”

World Years Feelings Dream Found House Church Christianity Missing This World Comfort Offers Comfortable Years Ago Sinking Sinking Feeling

Author:David Platt

“I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.”

Feelings Moving Church Confusion Organized Toxic Organized Religion

Author:Anne Rice

“For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before – the succession and superimposition of views, the unfolding of landscape in flickering surfaces as one was carried swiftly past it, and an exaggerated feeling of relative motion (the poplars nearby seeming to move faster than the church spire across the field) due to parallax. The view from the train was not the view from the horse. It compressed more motifs into the same time. Conversely, it left less time in which to dwell on any one thing.”

“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.)

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