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Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

— Eliza Farnham

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

— Pope Francis

We all have that power to have a soul that magnifies God.

— Regina Brett

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

— John Dryden

The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.

— Pope Francis

Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity.

— Jan Hus

On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.

— Maria Monk

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

✗Opposing Perspectives

There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power.

— Josiah Strong

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

— Marquis de Sade