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The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville. -- James Weldon Johnson
The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church. -- Josh McDowell
I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments. -- Randall Terry
What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans. -- Timothy Radcliffe
The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world. -- Harold B. Lee
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight. -- Venerable Bede
This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men. -- Origen
I love the Lord Jesus Christ and His Church, which has been restored to the earth in our day. I treasure the teachings of His holy life from newborn infant to resurrected man, Son of God. -- Margaret D. Nadauld
I see apostasy in many ways occurring in Evangelical churches that really aren't teaching the truth of God's word. I do believe that some churches have become entertainment centers and a teaching a type of prosperity Gospel rather than teaching God's word. -- Robert Jeffress
Orthodox theologians insisted that the rest of humankind were only transitory creatures, lost in sin - a view that would support what would become their dominant teaching about salvation, offered only through Christ, and, in particular, through the church they claimed to represent. -- Elaine Pagels
What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them? -- William P. Leahy
In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the property in Hildale and Colorado City is held in trust for the church. Striving to be as self-sufficient as possible, the community grows a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, and everyone, including children, is expected to help bring in the yield. -- Scott Anderson
Our Holy Father... is very clear that, of course, the teachings of the Church must be preserved and passed on. However, we need to do this in a way that the Holy Father says is creative. We need to do it in a way that we look for new strategies that address the hearts of people. -- Joseph Edward Kurtz
We sometimes get so caught up in one or another aspect of the teaching, we forget that if a person hasn't been introduced to Christ, if a person hasn't embraced the risen Lord and the church that's an expression of that experience, what we're saying just sounds like a bunch of rules or negative statements limiting their personal freedom. -- Donald Wuerl
At the parish level, where the church lives and moves and breathes, that's where we need to be engaging our people much more in understanding the Word of God... the Word of God reflected in the traditional teaching of the church, the Word of God reflected in the scriptures, is as much a part of their lives as anything else. -- Donald Wuerl
When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I'm teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing. -- Jimmy Carter
The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice. -- Bobby Bowden
The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ. -- Pope John Paul II
He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith. -- Thomas Aquinas
Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution. -- Pope Pius XII
Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is. -- William P. Leahy
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery -- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery. -- Leo Tolstoy
I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church. -- Matilda Joslyn Gage
The Church's teaching isn't an official statement, but the cumulative understanding of all the people who have loved and experienced Jesus through time. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power--worship. -- Robert E. Webber
Instead it is the Church hierarchy that is rather teaching congregation to be afraid of darkness, instead of teaching them to go with light to overcome darkness. -- Sunday Adelaja
Because everyone who try a-go to church, and they were trying to teach but they weren't teaching, they was brainwashing. Since I would never call that teaching.. -- Peter Tosh
A church determined to hold only those doctrines that a secular world finds adequately comprehensible is a church that will hold to no central vital Christian teaching whatsoever. -- Albert Mohler
The church is an organisation that institutionalises an aversion to homosexuality, it institutionalises gender inequality and it speaks from a place of teaching people being ashamed of their sexuality. -- Hozier

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