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  • The Church in England is the Church of England.

  • Is the Church of England an Anglican church? The church did not start in Canterbury, the church did not start in Rome. Whether Canterbury is Anglican or not is immaterial. We are Anglicans. They are the Church of England.

    Rome   Church   England  
    "The Leader of Nearly 18 Million Nigerian Anglicans Challenges the West's Theology and Control" by Douglas LeBlanc, www.churchoftheword.net. October 13, 2006.
  • I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.

    Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2005.
  • 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.

    "The Works of Benjamin Franklin".
  • My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind.

    Heart   Mind   Church  
  • The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.

    Lying   Editors   Church  
    1829 Signs of the Times.
  • It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.

    Church   England   Ends  
    1962 In the New Statesman, 20 Jul.
  • In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before. You took the fact that the monarch was head of the Church of England to mean that the British monarchy was itself a religious or moral institution and the monarchy became a symbol of national public morality.

    Religious   Mean   Church  
    "What do the cards hold for British royalty?". www.cnn.com. August 19, 1996.
  • But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

    Kids   Thinking   Elderly  
  • Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned.

    Men   Thinking   Church  
    1878 An Inland Voyage,'At Maubeuge'.
  • "The Church of England," I said, seeing that Mr. Inglesant paused, "is no doubt a compromise."

    Doubt   Church   England  
    Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1902). “John Inglesant: A Romance ...”
  • At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

    Mother   Father   School  
  • As a parish priest of the Church Of England I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians.

    "An Ecumenical Chatter: When Rev Robert Hood Met Fr Alan Green". Interview with Luke Turner, thequietus.com. June 6, 2016.
  • We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

    Church   England   Host  
  • Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!

    Hands   Two   Church  
    Daniel Defoe (2016). “DANIEL DEFOE Ultimate Collection: 50+ Adventure Classics, Pirate Tales & Historical Novels - Including Biographies, Historical Works, Travel Sketches, Poems & Essays (Illustrated): Robinson Crusoe, The History of the Pirates, Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, A Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders, Roxana, The History of the Devil, The King of Pirates and many more”, p.6414, e-artnow
  • The words "Think and Thank" are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: "Think and Thank". Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.

    Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.123, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
  • But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.

  • Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

    Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.21
  • I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

    Believe   House   Church  
  • I say to you Baptists, "Go on being good Baptists, thinking that you are more right than anybody else." Unless you think it, I have no use for you at all. The Church of England does precisely the same itself.

  • I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go.

    Source: www.pinkfloydz.com
  • 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."

  • The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.

  • I do not want "Mormonism" to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic Church is in Italy, or as the Church of England is in England, because the wicked and ungodly would crowd into it in their sins.

  • I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we rather lost it in the 19th Century, we became so much part of empire and colonialism, the language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time. As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church's role in losing people.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.

    Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.153, Delphi Classics
  • When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see experiments performed, since the results could be vouched for by their teachers, all of them of the highest character, and many of them clergymen of the Church of England.

    Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.620, Psychology Press
  • I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England. And though the main of it was compiled considerably more than two hundred years ago, yet is the language of it, not only pure, but strong and elegant in the highest degree.

    Strong   Prayer   Believe  
    John Wesley “John Wesley's The Book of Common Prayer”, Lulu.com
  • When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.

    'Tom Jones' (1749) bk. 3, ch. 3
  • The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

    Church   World   England  
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