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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 world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

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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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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 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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The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

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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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The question is: until reinforced, can we learn the ways of church mice.

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Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity.

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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 learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

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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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God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

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If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.

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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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Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue.

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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

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God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.

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My response is that I love the church.

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

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