“This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are we must tread with awful reverence in the footsteps of our fathers']is the genuine fruit of the alliance between Church and State, the tenants of which finding themselves but too well in their present condition, oppose all advances which might unmask their usurpations and monopolies of honors, wealth and power, and fear every change as endangering the comforts they now hold.” MenWellsHas BeensStatesMightFatherChurchWealthConditionsHonorComfortFindingsFruitPositive AtheismGenuineDoctrineSecureAwfulReverenceMonopolyOur FatherAlliancesChurch And StateFootstepsTenantsUsurpationPower And Fear Book:Jefferson: Writings Source: Jefferson: Writings
“I'm not turned away from the church through anger, although I have criticisms of it. It's through finding affirmation of life and illumination of life through creativity and art.” ArtChurchCreativityFindingsCriticismAffirmationIllumination Author:Steve Coogan
“If you spend a lot of time with activists, as I have, they're just ordinary people who instead of Netflix are getting together in church basements and making posters or making phone calls doing organizing work. It really is about finding a community of other people.” PeopleIfsTogetherCommunityChurchFindingsOrdinaryPhonesWorking ItActivistOrdinary PeoplePostersPhone CallsBasementsNetflix Author:Avi Lewis
“Mechanical Animals for me documents the repair of my emotions, the repair of my soul, and this record does deal with God in a different way. It deals with me finding God in art, and in music. I think there's more spirituality in art than you could find in a church” ThinkingWayDoeArtDifferentSoulSpiritualityChurchAnimalDealsEmotionRecordsFindingsMy SoulDifferent WaysDocumentsFinding God Author:Marilyn Manson
“I was working in a church in Florida as a youth intern, which means I really didn't do much other than staple stuff. I'm from Dallas, Texas, and every time my grandmother would call-she would call me any time of the day-I'd be home answering the phone. She was like, "What do you do all day?" and sarcastically I would say, "Well, I'm trying to chalk off the next year to spend time finding a band name." And she said, "Well mercy me, why don't you get a real job?" I thought, "Wait a minute. That's the perfect name." That kind of freed up my year but that's where the name came from.” TryingYearsWellsKindMeanSaidRealHomeJobsNextNamesStuffWaitingChurchPerfectMinutesYouthBandFindingsMercyPhonesGrandmotherCall MeTexasFloridaEnd TimesMy GrandmotherSpend TimeNext YearDallasStaplesReal JobsChalkDallas TexasAnswering The Phone Author:Bart Millard
“There is a tradition that the church represents, without which we wouldn't have the church, that's all about diving deep beneath the surface of the culture and finding those timeless, eternal truths that the whole Christian enterprise is rooted in. And one of those is that you don't come to God at 180 miles an hour.” WholeChristianCultureHoursChurchFindingsEternalTraditionSurfaceMilesEnterpriseRootedTimelessDivingBeneath The SurfaceDiving Deep Author:Parker J. Palmer
“Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.” PeopleSelfChurchVisionFindingsFaultsSelf CenteredSelf DestructSelf Centered People Author:John C. Maxwell
“We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact "right" on people. It has to come from the inside. And that's where the church should be working.” PeopleWayShouldFactsChurchFindingsInjusticeHandle Author:Dallas Willard
“It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.” IfsMatterChurchEnemySeeingFindingsCatholicFundamentalsIncludingAcceptedCreedsDogmaCatholic ChurchService To OthersReally LivingFinding God Author:Martin Sheen