Separation of The Churches of Christ and Christian Churches
| “ | Nothing in life has given me more pain in heart than the separation from those I have heretofore worked with and loved | ” |
| — David Lipscomb, 1899 |
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Famous quotes containing the words separation, churches, christ and/or christian:
“Reunion after long separation is even better than one’s wedding night.”
—Chinese proverb.
“People fall out of windows, trees tumble down,
Summer is changed to winter, the young grow old
The air is full of children, statues, roofs
And snow. The theatre is spinning round,
Colliding with deaf-mute churches and optical trains.
The most massive sopranos are singing songs of scales.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I never went near the Wellesley College chapel in my four years there, but I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity that school stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word.... How marvelous it would have been to go to a women’s college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)