{"quotes":[{"text":"Since when has bringing stolen money to churches for Pastor’s blessings become a Nigerian norm?","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["blessings","bringing","churches","money","nigerian","norm","since","stolen","when"],"id":13777,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the 'harmony of Genesis and Geology.' Like all hypocrites, these men overstate the case to such a degree, and so turn and pervert facts and words that they succeed only in gaining the applause of other hypocrites like themselves. Among the great scientists they are regarded as generals regard sutlers who trade with both armies.Surely the time must come when the wealth of the world will not be wasted in the propagation of ignorant creeds and miraculous mistakes. The time must come when churches and cathedrals will be dedicated to the use of man; when minister and priest will deem the discoveries of the living of more importance than the errors of the dead; when the truths of Nature will outrank the 'sacred' falsehoods of the past, and when a single fact will outweigh all the miracles of Holy Writ.Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then, and not until then, will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher, become a real and blessed truth.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["applause","blessed","brave","cathedrals","church","churches","civilize","clergyman","creeds","dead","discoveries","elevate","enlighten","errors","fact","facts","failed","falsehoods","generals","genesis","geology","great","harmony","holy-writ","honest","hypocrites","ignorant","lectures","living","mankind","minister","miracles","miraculous","mistakes","money","nature","past","patriot","peers","perfert","philanthropist","philosopher","poet","priest","progress","pursuit","real","recognition","reputation","sacred","school","science","scientific","stlers","superstition","teacher","think","truth","university","use","vapid","waste","weak","wealth"],"id":14144,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.","author":"Joyce Cary","tags":["anarchism","anarchists","buddha","church","churches","confucius","einstein","gulley-jimson","karma","plantie","protestantism","vitamins"],"id":16142,"author_id":"Joyce+Cary"},{"text":"I hear preached in our charismatic churches, which basically borders on sowing and reaping, giving and receiving. I thought there must be a different format to that message.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["basically","be","borders","charismatic","churches","different","format","giving","hear","i","message","must","our","preached","reaping","receiving","sowing","that","there","thought","which"],"id":25081,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Whenever He answers prayers, God usually prioritizes those by people who, instead of their mouths, have prayed with their hands and/or feet.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["act","action","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","arm","arms","atheism","atheist","atheists","believer","believers","church","churches","churchgoer","churchgoers","congregation","congregations","daydream","daydreamer","daydreamers","do","doer","doers","fate","feet","foot","funny","god","gods","hand","hands","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","joke","jokes","karma","leg","legs","nonbeliever","nonbelievers","pagan","pray","prayed","prayer","prayers","praying","praying-man","praying-men","praying-woman","praying-women","prioritize","priority","quotations","quotes","religion","religions","satire","synagogue","synagogues","wish","wishful-thinking","worship","worshiper","worshipers","worshipper","worshippers"],"id":30707,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be equally critical of evangelical (and especially American) Christianity's modernity and its appropriation of Enlightenment notions of the autonomous self. Indeed, many otherwise orthodox Christians, who recoil at the notion of theological liberalism, have unwittingly adopted notions of freedom and autonomy that are liberal to the core. Averse to hierarchies and control, contemporary evangelicalism thrives on autonomy: the autonomy of the nondenominational church, at a macrocosmic level, and the autonomy of the individual Christian, at the microcosmic level. And it does not seem to me that the emerging church has changed much on this score; indeed, some elements of emergent spirituality are intensifications of this affirmation of autonomy and a laissez-faire attitude with respect to institutions.","author":"James K.A. Smith","tags":["christianity","churches","doctrine","emergent-church","foucault","institutions","nondenominational","theology"],"id":32457,"author_id":"James+K.A.+Smith"},{"text":"Many of our churches have become content with creating well-behaved constituents instead of forgiven children of God.","author":"R.J. Grunewald","tags":["churches","forgiveness"],"id":40328,"author_id":"R.J.+Grunewald"},{"text":"Sinning when alone is easy but Worshipping alone is difficult.","author":"Dr Paul Gitwaza","tags":["alone","christianity","churches","difficult","easy-way","god","humility","religion-and-philosophy","sinning","worship"],"id":51462,"author_id":"Dr+Paul+Gitwaza"},{"text":"Brethren, you won’t believe what I discovered. I found out that in every place, people listened to the message (the shift our churches need) with full attention and total bewilderment. The question that I kept on hearing was: “why are other Christian ministers not doing the same thing?","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["attention","believe","bewilderment","brethen","churches","discovered","every","found","full","listened","message","need","people","place","shift","that","total","what","with","won-t"],"id":56476,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"The emphasis of the churches were not in how much work or home keeping is done in the four walls of the church itself, they rather told the Protestants to go prove their love to God at their work places through the quality of their works.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["church","churches","emphasis","four","god","home","how","itself","keeping","love","not","places","protestants","prove","quality","rather","their","through","told","walls","were","work","works"],"id":58941,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":61,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}