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In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.


John Strachan


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In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.


John Strachan


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No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.


Jim Wallis


#community #conscience #i #i think #just

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.


Walt Whitman


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


Bill Hybels


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Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.


Malcolm Boyd


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In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.


Salvatore J. Cordileone


#adapt #altered #been #beginning #believers

The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.


John Strachan


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Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.


Annie Lennox


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In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.


James Madison


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