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

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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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Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

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

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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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A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

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

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The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

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I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn't find it out for many months

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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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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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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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The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

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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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Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

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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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