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

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

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A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

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It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

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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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I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.

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I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

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

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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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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 attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.

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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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What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

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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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