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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 multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

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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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What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.

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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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Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.

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The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free - which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.

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The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

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I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

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But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.

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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

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

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There is no salvation outside the church.

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

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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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Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.

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The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

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