In 1862 the congregation of the church forwarded the church bell to General Beauregard to be melted into cannon, "hoping that its ...gentle tones, that have so often called us to the House of God, may be transmuted into war's resounding rhyme to repel the ruthless invader from the beautiful land God, in his goodness, has given us."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the sc...riptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a man desireth the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigil...ant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (for if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The a...cademy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith ...is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my dif...ferent business, professional and political interests.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Catholics think of grace as a supernatural power which God dispenses, primarily through the Church and its sacraments, to purify t...he souls of naturally sinful human beings, and render them capable of holiness.... Protestants think of grace as an attribute of God rather than a gift from God. It is a shorthand term signifying God's determination to love, forgive, and save His human children, however little they deserve it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts;... God works in a mysterious way-- The Church can sleep and feed at once.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And I profess still, that whatsoever the church of England (the church, I say, not every doctor) shall forbid me to say in matter ...of faith, I shall abstain from saying it, excepting this point, that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died for my sins. As for other doctrines, I think it unlawful, if the church define them, for any member of the church to contradict them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance] ... do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they atheis...ts? No. For though by ignorance of the consequence they said that which was equivalent to atheism, yet in their hearts they thought God a substance ... So that this atheism by consequence is a very easy thing to be fallen into, even by the most godly men of the church.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »