Churches

But the churches, _as churches_, have done very little for the cause of the "Prince of peace," and now the world itself has outgrown their moral standard and looks to them for guidance and inspiration no more. ❋ W. R. Washington Sullivan (N/A)

Cotton Mather had prophesied of a coming time when churches would have to be gathered _out of the churches_ in the colony. ❋ Various (N/A)

Skeptic though he was, Girard sometimes gave money to build churches, not because they were _churches_, but because, as buildings, they contributed to the improvement of the city. ❋ Unknown (1867)

Chap. XIII.;) so the same holy Spirit of Christ is pleased to style single congregations, _churches_, "Let women keep silence in the churches," 1 Cor.xiv. 34, i.e. in the single congregations of this one church of Corinth: and often mention is made of the church that is in such or such an _house_, as Rom. xvi. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The sexism that percolates in churches is exactly the same type of sexism we face in our every day lives except for one thing. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Black women and women whose grandmothers were black are today furnishing our teachers; they are the main pillars of those social settlements which we call churches; and they have with small doubt raised three-fourths of our church property. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

The charges most strenuously insisted upon against them were, that they weakened the respect of children for their parents, by not paying the honors due to ancestors; that they indecently brought together young men and women in retired places, which they called churches; that they made girls kneel before them, and enclosed them with their legs, and conversed with them, while in this posture, in undertones. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Less than two per cent of the men attend church, and if the extracts we read from the sermons preached in their churches is a fair sample of the teaching given there, the ninety-eight who stay at home are better off than the two who go! ❋ Nellie L. McClung (1918)

Black women (and women whose grandmothers were black) are today furnishing our teachers; they are the main pillars of those social settlements which we call churches; and they have with small doubt raised three-fourths of our church property. ❋ Unknown (1915)

All this is true in reference to the smaller communities of congregations, and with the necessary modifications it is quite as true in reference to the larger aggregations which we call churches or denominations. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

Where a fit number of believers is, presbyters or elders must be set; their continuance in churches is as necessary as their first appointment, for perfecting the saints, and edifying the body of Christ, till all come to a perfect man in Christ, till the whole number of God's chosen be called and united to Christ in one body, and brought to their full stature and strength, and that measure of grace that is proper and designed for them, Eph. iv. ❋ Unknown (1721)

They find it confusing when the tabernacle in their churches is not visible, and if possible, central. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We should be learning in churches, not schools, where liberal ideals are subjecting our children to unspeakable ideas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The historically religious context of marriage despite secular shifts means that this debate belongs in churches and homes – not in the political sphere. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If there are those in churches who are chiming in with the world's belief that women without children ought to be working, then they fall under the category of the "unbeliever." ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is one reason the liberal courses, including womens studies, disconnect women from the true history: so they can churn out hundreds of graduates a year into the world, to be change agents in churches and agencies, schools and courts, who will not respect the principles and laws and Biblical foundations of the past. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of the conditions of 501c3 tax-exempt status for churches is that they promise to not involve themselves in politics. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Caravans toured by Cadillac, eventually graduating from performances in churches and schools to theaters and auditoriums. ❋ Emma Brown (2010)