Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Church
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Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
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Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.
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If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another.
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Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
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When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.
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A lighthouse is more useful than a church.
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Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.
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An Episcopalian divine once told the Pope that the only difference between their denominations was that "the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong."
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The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.
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I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
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Benjamin Franklin
- Born: January 17, 1706
- Died: April 17, 1790
- Occupation: Founding Father of the United States