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“If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty.”

Ifs World Play Church Greater Honor Worship Concerts Thank God Organs Almighty Finest Privileged Console Church Service

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“What if I say that it is not unjust but according to law that when a woman gets into debt her husband should bear it? And with the church of God sinning, it was but right that her Husband, who had espoused her unto Himself, should become the debtor on her behalf. The Lord Jesus stood in the relationship of a married Husband unto His church, and it was not, therefore, a strange thing that He should bear her burdens.”

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Book:The Doctrines of Grace

Source: The Doctrines of Grace

“If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.”

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Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I try to sit down at night before they go to bed and read the Bible with them and do little devotionals and pray with them. I think if you instill it in them when they are young, they'll remember when they grow up. I raise them in church. When the doors are open, I want to be there. My kids love to go. So does my wife.”

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Author:Andy Pettitte

“Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic church.... Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.”

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Author:Pope Pius XI

“If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters our fathers triumphantly fought. While wisely rejecting throne and caste and privilege and an Established Church in their new-born state, they adopted the substance of English liberty and the body of English law.”

Source: Oration and memorial addresses

“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

“If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?”

Ifs Doe Religion Women Church Teach Office Refuse Sacraments Elders Deacons

Book:The Woman's Bible

Source: The Woman's Bible

“Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history, a history which the church and the world possess, and which, surrounded by countless memorials, has at least the same authenticity as any other history formed in the same countries, amidst the same peoples and in the same times. As, then, if I would study the lives of Brutus and Cassius, I should calmly open Plutarch, I open the Gospel to study Jesus Christ, and I do so with the same composure.”

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Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“Some speak of the public as if it were someone with whom they have had dinner at the Leipzig Fair in the Hotel de Saxe. Who is this public? The public is not a thing, but rather an idea, a postulate, like the Church.”

Ifs Ideas Speak Church Fairs Dinner Hotel Leipzig

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“For some reason, which I believe I can guess, the churches/mosques want control of people when or while they are the most vulnerable or suggestible. If they can't get them in school, then they get them when they are hungry, or frightened, or ill, or homeless, or unemployed. Same difference. Here's your gruel, and here's a tract.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.”

Ifs World Christ Church Initials

Book:For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy

Source: For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy

“If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.”

Ifs Should Lying House Church Five Society Minutes Speech Statements Manners Five Minutes

Book:The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“Open your hearts to the Lord. The Lord is waiting for you and the Church will welcome you if your willingness to serve good is as clear and public as your choice to serve evil was.”

Ifs Heart Choices Evil Waiting Church Lord Clear Welcome Willingness Waiting For You Open Your Heart Willingness To Serve

Author:Pope Francis

“The Bible places supreme value in the thought life. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," Solomon wrote. Jesus asserted that sin's gravity lay in the idea itself, not just the act. "Paul admonished the church at Philippi to have the mind of Christ, and to the same people he wrote, "Whatever is true ... pure ... if there be any virtue ... think on these things." Thus, the follower of Christ must demonstrate to the world what it is not just to think, but to think justly.”

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Author:Ravi Zacharias

“If anyone dared to assert that the Pontiff had erred in this or that canonisation, we shall say that he is, if not a heretic, at least temerarious, a giver of scandal to the whole Church, an insulter of the saints, a favourer of those heretics who deny the Church's authority in canonizing saints, savouring of heresy by giving unbelievers an occasion to mock the faithful, the assertor of an erroneous opinion and liable to very grave penalties.”

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Author:Pope Benedict XIV

“In China I told pastors about how, in the West, we have these church buildings and how we go to services each week that last an hour or so. I told them how if we don't like the music or the message then we can go to different buildings and services... They all broke out into laughter. They thought I was the funniest guy they had ever seen.”

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Author:Francis Chan

“We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient.”

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Author:Michael Huffington

“I'm not sure if the shame/guilt distinction resonates for me. I just know that shame is a debilitating emotion that is perpetuated by Church and State.”

Ifs Knows States Church Emotion Shame Guilt Not Sure Distinction Church And State

Author:Marilyn Dumont

“Power corrupts. If the Church is given too much power, it will become corrupted. So to keep the Church in line with the teachings of Christ, we must make sure that it can never have temporal power. Religion has its place and politics has its own. These two should not be mixed together or the result would be catastrophic.”

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Author:Ali Sina

“So when you say who does Christ die for? He died for the church, okay. I don't think God's death on the cross through Christ was a failure, if you are saying that. I do not believe that anybody he intended to die for is failing in that area.”

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Author:Rick Warren

“I had received Christ as my savior when I was a child, but I didn't know anything. I didn't have any knowledge. I didn't go to church. And I had a lot of problems, and I needed somebody to kind of help me along. And I think sometimes even people who want to serve God, if they have got so many problems that they don't think right and they don't act right and they don't behave right, they almost need somebody to take them by the hand and help lead them through the early years. And that's really what discipleship is. It's helping people.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“My father was very strict with me, and I kept seeing a disparity between their freedom and my lack of it, or how I had all the responsibilities and they had none. And the Catholic Church, all of the rules, and why did I have to wear a dress when they could wear pants? I would say to my dad: 'Will Jesus love me less if I wear pants? Am I going to hell?'”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“As a Catholic, you can have two views on capital punishment. You can think, let Caesar do what Caesar needs to do, and the law says you can impose capital punishment, so you impose it. You can [also] be a Catholic who says we can't kill, we can't kill babies and we can't kill adults. If you let a decision be driven by your personal views, then you are not doing what a judge needs to do, which is enforce the laws of the society that you are in. But you can control your own behavior, and that is the choice that the church and God gives us - what kind of people are we going to be.”

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Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“There are about 360,000 churches in America, so we could mentor a million kids within a short period of time if everyone signed on, which, of course, is a pipedream, but we're going to reach toward that.”

Ifs Kids America Courses Church Millions Periods Mentor

Author:Donald Miller

“If we all gave all our goods to the poor, the church would fall apart. If we all hated our father and mother, as Jesus told us to, there'd be an end of the church's emphasis on the family as being the one important thing holding the whole society together. There are all sorts of ways in which the church's teachings contradict directly what Jesus says in the Gospel.”

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Author:Philip Pullman

“I will fight to the death for one's right to be able to practice in their temple, their mosque, or in their church, even if they have a different belief than I do.”

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Author:Otis Moss III

“A lot of people think that Jesus is coming back. That's fine, it's your right. But you know, I live in New York, and I think he's running a little late. I'm asking myself, 'Alright, what happens if Jesus comes back tomorrow? What - does he make rounds to churches?' 'OK, everyone who's been good, buses leave in 10 minutes. I'll meet you in front of the post office. I gotta go. Oh, don't tell the Jews I'm back.'”

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Author:Marc Maron

“Y'know, if those pews reclined, and the priests gave the Raiders scores I'd go to church every Sunday.”

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Author:George Lopez

“Though people are more important than money, I'm not convinced these large sums of money paid out to victims is the best. Listening to the some of the victims, I think we could have avoided a lot of this if the Church had humbly apologized to them, but we tried to bully some of them. I pray the victims are healed.”

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Author:Uwem Akpan

“I can only say that I believe the Mormon Church is changing because the people inside the church are changing, particularly, the women. And if the women in the Mormon Church are changing, that means the men in the Mormon Church will change - slowly, reluctantly to be sure, but inevitably.”

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Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“If you want to attain salvation, learn and keep in your heart all that the holy Church teaches and, receiving heavenly power from the mysteries of the Church, walk the path of Christ's commandments, under the direction of lawful pastors, and you will undoubtedly attain the Heavenly Kingdom and be saved. All of this is naturally necessary in the matter of salvation, necessary in it entirety and for all. Whoever rejects or neglects any part of it has no salvation.”

“If God can save Paul, He can save anybody. If God could use me, God could use anybody.”

Ifs Use Christian Leadership Church Using Me

Author:Johnny Hunt

“Anytime you commit sin and God deals with you, you have the opportunity to confess it. If you don't confess it, you only have one option but to cover it up.”

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Author:Johnny Hunt

“If I don't let God deal with my bentness, I will go the way of my bentness. But Jesus can straighten me out.”

Ifs Way Christian Jesus Leadership Church Deals Letting Go

Author:Johnny Hunt

“If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.”

Ifs Christian Leadership Church Preacher Preaching

Author:Johnny Hunt

“You can know you're a Christian if, not are you dealing with your sin before God but is God dealing with you about your sin.”

Ifs Knows Christian Leadership Church Sin

Author:Johnny Hunt

“If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God.”

Ifs Knows Christian Leadership Church Sin Do You Know Thrones Offense Repent Pardon

Author:Johnny Hunt

“If you listen to your people they'll tell you what's important.”

People Ifs Important Christian Leadership Church What's Important

Author:Johnny Hunt

“If you are godly it has been because you have been made godly.”

Ifs Has Beens Made Christian Leadership Church Godly

Author:Johnny Hunt

“Where do you think you would be now if Jesus would not have saved you when He did.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Christian Jesus Leadership Church Saved

Author:Johnny Hunt

“If you choose to be obedient to God, God meets you with divine enablement.”

Ifs Christian Leadership Church Divine You Choose Obedient

Author:Johnny Hunt

“If God did not care for you, there would never be a sense of a need to respond.”

Ifs Needs Care Christian Leadership Church Care For You

Author:Johnny Hunt

“If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.”

Ifs Christian Leadership Church Invisible Remarkable

Author:Simon Sinek

“If God doesn't build the vision, He will tear it down.”

Ifs Christian Leadership Church Vision Tears

Author:Matthew Carter

“If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.”

Ifs Christian Dies Leadership Church Profit Locals Volunteer Non Profit Local Church

Author:Andy Stanley

“If a volunteer can help us with an immediate need, we can put them in a place to make their greatest contribution.”

Ifs Needs Helping Christian Leadership Church Contribution Volunteer

Author:Andy Stanley

“If you want to know if I'm a Godly man, follow me home.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Home Christian Leadership Church Godly Follow Me Godly Man

Author:Andy Stanley

“If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.”

People Ifs Should Firsts Christian Leadership Church Leader Listening Guts

Author:Andy Stanley

“If the pursuit of God's glory is not ordered above the pursuit of man's good in the affections of the heart and the priorities of the Church, man will not be well served, and God will not be duly honored. I am not pleading for a diminishing of missions but for a magnifying of God. When the flame of worship burns with the heat of God's true worth, the light of missions will shine to the darkest peoples on earth. And I long for that day to come!”

Source: Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions

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