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

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

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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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I'm definitely not a traditionalist, because a traditionalist would be going to church every Sunday.

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

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Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

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

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Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.

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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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I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.

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Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors.

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

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I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that, I knew something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it.

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Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state.

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