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Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity. -- Jan Hus
The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society. -- Claudio Hummes
The only people who had authority within the Church to stop Brendan Smyth from having contact with children were his Abbot in the Monastery in Kilnacrott and his Religious Superiors in the Norbertine Order. -- Sean Brady
We as preachers/teachers/pastors have to figure out things to do in order to garner the attention of individuals and also keep them at our churches by making sure that we reinvent ourselves on a consistent basis. -- Marvin Sapp
We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive. -- Jeff Miller
If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order. -- Pat Robertson
I grew up Protestant. My dad was a Charismatic pastor of the Families of God denomination. Often, we noticed that - during a lot of his evangelistic-type services - that some of the Amish and Old Order Mennonite couples would come and stand across the street from the church and look in the door. -- Beverly Lewis
In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him. -- John Wycliffe
We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth. -- Pope Francis
Mormonism is not simply a commitment to a theology or a church practice, but a social-cultural order. -- Sterling M. McMurrin
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. -- Vance Havner
We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles. -- Vladimir Lenin
The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need in order to be saved. -- Tullian Tchividjian

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