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Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

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It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

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The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

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I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction.

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The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

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If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

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What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

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The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

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PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

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The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.

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God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.

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The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.

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To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

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God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

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To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life.

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Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord.

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I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.

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Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

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God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

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The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

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