A life ago, I was depressed, broke, homeless, unemployed and divorced… I went to the priest and asked him if it would be okay (to be confirmed into the Anglican church) considering I didn’t accept Jesus Christ as my personal savior, didn’t believe the Bible was divinely inspired and wasn’t entirely sure about the whole […]
Church Quotes
We are supposed to be a pilgrim people unencumbered and on the move yet we are chained to plant and property; we proclaim the hollowness of riches yet still have great wealth. The Church preaches about servanthood and humility yet it is classically hierarchical; it offers wholeness to man yet ministers to only a fraction […]
The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of the movements of civilization that have taken place outside of the church and usually in the face of the strong opposition of the church. But the church has always resisted the process of […]
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
For all in common she prays, for all in common she works, in the temptations of all she is tried.
It (the Holy Roman Church) firmly believes, professes, and proclaims that those not living within the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics cannot become participants in eternal life, but will depart into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels… , and that no one, whatever […]
But if at the Church they would give us some Ale. And a pleasant fire, our souls to regale; We’d sing and we’d pray, all the live-long day; Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray, (“The Little Vagabond”)
