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God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?

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The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.

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God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

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

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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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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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I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.

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The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

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

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The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

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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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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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