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

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I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.

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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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In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

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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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PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.

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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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The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

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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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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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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

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

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

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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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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

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

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I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled "the preacher girl."

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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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