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“And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb; For points obscure are of small use to learn, But common quiet is mankind's concern.”

Ifs Way Stills Reason Use Running Church Common Mankind Quiet Concern Hearing Doctrine Obscure Disputes Another Way Curb

Book:Dryden: Selected Poems

Source: Dryden: Selected Poems

“Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.”

States Church Cities Education Mankind Function

Author:Philip Wylie

“We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be our duty to foster especially literature and the fine arts ... next to knowledge and true worship of the Creator, nothing is better or more useful to mankind than such studies.”

Art Government Next Literature Church Study Mankind Objects Duty Fine Worship Creator Devoted Extensions Fine Arts True Worship

Author:Pope Leo X

“Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.”

Church Mankind Ought One Day Animosity Dissension Truce

Book:On Taste on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution, A Letter to a Noble Lord

Source: On Taste on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution, A Letter to a Noble Lord

“Because Scientology is perceived and conceived by Scientologists as being this salvation for mankind, you can have people that lie with a very straight face if they believe that what they are doing is protecting the Church of Scientology.”

People Ifs Believe Faces Lying Church Mankind Salvation Scientology Straight Face

Author:Mike Rinder

“The Church is always in trouble because the Church walks into the trouble in which mankind is trying to resolve itself. There are a lot of areas that need to be addressed. If we were perfect we wouldn't be the Church. I think it's the imperfections that allow people to trust that you're working (toward) something.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Trying Church Walks Perfect Trouble Mankind Areas Resolve Imperfection

Author:Dolores Hart

“It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth with hisblack wings. And soon the end of the world is expected. But mankind does not repent, the church struggles, and the preachers and poets warn and lament in vain.”

World Doe Ends Earth Evil Church Powerful Struggle Fire Violence Mankind Poet Devil Hatred Wings Expected Vain Preacher Repent End Of The World Lament Evil World

Author:Johan Huizinga

“They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.”

Church Mankind Universal Meetings

Book:The book and the brotherhood

Source: The book and the brotherhood

“The vocation and mission of the faithful can only be understood in light of a renewed awareness of the Church as sacrament or sign and instrument of intimate union with God, of the unity of the whole of mankind, and of the personal duty to adhere more closely to her.”

Whole Light Church Mankind Awareness Duty Understood Instruments Unions Unity Missions Faithful Intimate Sacraments Vocation

Author:Pope John Paul II