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“The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners.”

People Should Church Sinner

Author:Timothy Keller

“The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.”

Today Used Church Sin Sinner

Author:Nicolas Gomez Davila

“Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in.”

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Author:Mordecai Ham

“If you were good enough, there would be no need of confessing Christ at all. It is just because you are not good enough, that Christ says to you, "Follow me." He came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. It is not the perfect people whom He wants in His church, but those who have a deep sense of their own imperfection, and who believe that His strength is made perfect in weakness.”

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Author:Washington Gladden

“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.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Langston Hughes

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes

“During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if there was a chance that it could save them, or others, from the eternal torments of hell. Thus, in the name of the religion of love, hundreds of thousands of people were not merely killed but atrociously tortured in ways that made the gas chambers of Beslen seem humane.”

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Author:Margaret E. Knight

“[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.”

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Book:Views and Opinions

Source: Views and Opinions

“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!”

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Author:Lewis Carroll

“We ought to love the sinner and hate OUR sin.”

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Author:Johnny Hunt

“I think one of the reasons our court system wants to remove The 10 Commandments is because The 10 Commandments reminds us we are sinners.”

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Author:Johnny Hunt

“The beginning of knowledge is to know thyself a sinner.”

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Author:Johnny Hunt