#churches

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#church #churches #closed #down #merged

I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of men in every other gathering of God's children. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#children #churches #esteem #every #gathering

If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#churches #exist #make #persons #real

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#baptist #bryant #churches #i #sang

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches. ↗

— Aaron Neville

#both #catholic #churches #father #i

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#because #burned #churches #culture #diversity

A lot of churches have not moved with the times. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#lot #moved #times

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#christian #churches #enslave #human #human inventions

Mitt doesn't like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point. And we're no different than the millions of Americans who quietly help their neighbors, their churches and their communities. They don't do it so that other will think more of them. They do it because there is no greater joy. ↗

— Ann Romney

#because #churches #communities #different #greater

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#christian #christian religion #churches #deliberately #enemy