"There are no small churches, just small people."
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"I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world."
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"Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out."
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"Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?"
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"A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit."
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"I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up."
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"...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God."
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"That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals who control it and who have removed the bells from its steeples."
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"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching."
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"The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without."
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"There is no salvation outside the church."
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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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"To be of no Church is dangerous."
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"Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations."
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"I was always laughing in church."
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"The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners."
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"The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion"
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"So that Sunday morning I ended up going to church and that’s when I got saved."
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"Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable."
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"I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary."
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