Top 27 Quotes About The Anglican Church
#1. As regards my own 'philosophy,' I continue to be inspired by the music, liturgy and architectural tradition of the Anglican Church in which I was brought up. No one can fail to be uplifted by great cathedrals - such as that at Ely, near my home in Cambridge.
Martin Rees
#2. The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that,
if you let it alone,
it will let you alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. I really do feel that these people are brothers and sisters in God's family. I am looking to build bridges with the Orthodox Church, looking to build bridges with the Catholic Church, with the Anglican church.
Rick Warren
#4. Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process will allow traditional Anglicans to be themselves.
Peter Slipper
#5. The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
Oscar Wilde
#6. Nor, strictly speaking, is it correct to call them Puritans. They were Separatists, so called because they had left the Church of England. Puritans were those who remained in the Anglican Church but wished to purify it.
Bill Bryson
#7. I am 52 years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth, I cannot vote.
Desmond Tutu
#8. That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries.
Robert Winston
#9. The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.
Terry Eagleton
#10. And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.
Sean Hayes
#11. 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.
Peter Akinola
#12. The English Church, it was claimed, was Catholicism purified and reformed. And what was the nature of this reform? The truth was that nobody, least of all Henry himself, had much idea.
Edward Rutherfurd
#13. Am equally at home in an Anglican or Baptist church
David Frost
#14. Your rewards, all the years of your life, will be in precise proportion to your service. You are here to serve others, just as they serve you.
Earl Nightingale
#15. Someone is going to develop a plan that will take them into the future of their dreams. Let it be you.
Jim Rohn
#16. One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church ...
Henry James
#17. Anglicans don't really forbid anything,' Kelly said. 'We just decide we're above it.
K. D. Miller
#18. I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian experience. It was just sort of assumed like an awful lot of things in the 1950's were just sort of taken for granted.
N. T. Wright
#19. During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
Gary Hamel
#20. I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.
Chely Wright
#21. London is one of the most fascinating, historic, amazing cities in the world!
Sophie Kinsella
#22. Quite deliberately my friend drops a kettle on the floor. I tap-dance in front of closed doors. One by one the household emerges, looking as though they'd like to kill us both; but it's Christmas, so they can't.
Truman Capote
#23. They can buy talent. You can't buy it for yourself, but you can buy other people's talent to serve your purposes. And once an artist does that, he becomes like a plaything of the rich.
Robert Crumb
#24. I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.
Richard Dawkins
#27. There are obviously a lot of very ill people out there. But there are also people in the middle, getting overlabeled, becoming nothing more than a big splurge of madness in the minds of the people who benefit from it.
Jon Ronson
