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“The biggest cause of society's change today is that people no longer believe in orthodox religion. They go to church, but they no longer believe in God.”

People Believe God Today Causes Church Orthodox Believe In God

Author:Li Hongzhi

“And that is why I think that God has used it in churches because we have seen a lot of healing take place in churches and we have seen a lot of healing take place in families.”

Thinking God Used Church Healing

Author:Kerry Shook

“Churches provide a place of gathering for people who share common beliefs, support and encouragement for each other in faith, a place to find insight into and teaching about God's Word, and they provide a time and place where people can leave the world behind and focus only on their spiritual relationship with God.”

“It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.”

Stills God Beautiful Voice Church Speech Awful Frightened Closets Gracious Puritan Reverberation Beautiful Voice

Book:The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks

Source: The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks

“How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”

People Men States God Religion Order Stuff Differences Church Common Dying Quiet Authority Hunger Ill Excellent One Man

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.”

Knows God School Church Heard Fool Goodness Saint Thee Desert God Knows

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.”

God Mother Church Kings Holy Queens Brides

Author:Teresa of Avila

“Sign at a New England church: Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual light is extinguished?”

Persons God Light Lasts Church Please England Stupidity Perpetual New England

Author:Dave Barry

“I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.”

Believe Soul God Religion Asks I Believe Church Prayer Refuse I Believe In Believe In God I Believe In God

Author:Victor Hugo

“I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.”

Different God Political Religion Interest Church Relationship With God

Book:Why Not the Best?: The First Fifty Years

Source: Why Not the Best?: The First Fifty Years

“But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cannot comprehend nor conceive this. For methinks it implies also that the whole world is also in the whole God, and in every part of God. Norcan I find anything of this in the Scripture. If I could find it there, I could believe it; and if I could find it in the public doctrine of the Church, I could easily abstain from contradicting it.”

Ifs World Believe Whole God Church Bible Scripture Whole World Doctrine If I Could Contradicting Lordship

Author:Thomas Hobbes

“I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.”

Knows Done God House Church Temples Sects Mosques Synagogue House Of God

Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts