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Baptists have long upheld the ideal of a free church in a free state. And from the beginning, they believed that forcing a person to worship against his will violated the principles of both Christianity and civility.

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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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Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.

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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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Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state.

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

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The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

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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 am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

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

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The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ.

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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.

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Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

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

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

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

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

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