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

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I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that, I knew something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it.

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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

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Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is.

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Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

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The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.

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I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'

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

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Every bishop can testify to the promptings that attend calls to serve in the Church. Frequently the call seems to be for the benefit not so much of those to be taught or led as for the person who is to teach or lead.

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

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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

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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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I'm definitely not a traditionalist, because a traditionalist would be going to church every Sunday.

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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 Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

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But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien

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