"The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people."

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Charlie W Shedd

#People Quotes #Church Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.”
“We have to realize we are building a movement.”
“Voices in the forest tell of dark and twisted enchantments - as dark and twisted as the roots and grasping branches of the trees themselves. Even the most gnarled tree is eloquent in the telling of its own tale.”
“An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.”
“Fasting, as some people speculate, is not a bodily torture, martyrdom, or a cross, but it is a way to elevate the body to reach the level of cooperation with the soul. When we fast, our intention is not to torture the body but to shun its behaviour. Thus, one who fasts becomes a spiritual and not a physical person. Fasting is an ascetic soul which takes the body with it as its partner in asceticism.”
“Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?”
“Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.”
“Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.”

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