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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

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I'm not denouncing the church, and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It's not a church worthy of denouncing.

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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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SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.

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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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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

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After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

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

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How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.

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There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

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

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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

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The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

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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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Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

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

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