“Better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ.”
As quoted in American Criminal Trials Vol. I (1841) by Peleg W. Chandler, p. 26
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Anne Hutchinson10
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“It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
“It were better to be of no Church, than to be bitter for any.”
William Penn (1644–1718) English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania
535
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
“They that deny themselves for Christ shall enjoy themselves in Christ.”
John M. Mason (1770–1829) American Doctor of Divinity
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 534.
A. Philip Randolph (1889–1979) African-American civil-rights movement leader
"Negro Labor and the Church," in Capitalism vs. Collectivism: The Colonial Era to 1945, Volume 3 of African American Political Thought (Routledge African Studies: 2003), p. 136
Paul P. Enns (1937) American theologian
Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 71
“Corpses are more fit to be cast out than dung.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Fragment 96
Numbered fragments
Ruhollah Khomeini (1902–1989) Religious leader, politician
(Addressed to religious leaders of Christianity:)
Pithy Aphorisms: Wise Saying and Counsels, Edited by Mansoor Limba, Tehran: The Institute for Compilation and Publication of Imam Khomeini’s Works -- International Affairs Department. p. 9.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Aids to Reflection, "Moral and Religious Aphorisms," Aphorism 25 http://books.google.com/books?id=hEbwXNWXoBoC&q=%22He+who+begins+by+loving+Christianity+better+than+truth+will+proceed+by+loving+his+own+sect+or+church+better+than+Christianity+and+end+in+loving+himself+better+than+all%22&pg=PA74#v=onepage (1873)
“What is the Church? She is the body of Christ.”
Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher
Source: On the Mystical Body of Christ, p. 414
Context: What is the Church? She is the body of Christ. Join to it the Head, and you have one man: The Head and the body make up one man. Who is the head? He who was born of the Virgin Mary. … And what is His body? It is His Spouse, that is, the Church.... The Father willed that these two, the God Christ and the Church, should be one man. All men are one man in Christ, and the unity of the Christians constitutes but one man. And this man is all men, all men are this man; for all are one, since Christ is one.