"I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in."
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"Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them."
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"By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay."
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"There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more."
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"The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous, nor is it to be believed that its tradition is anything except apostolic."
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"What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they themselves are not able to respond."
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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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"Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church."
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"The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners."
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"Anybody that believes in separation of church and state needs to leave right now."
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"How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service.""
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"In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard."
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"My response is that I love the church."
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"The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do."
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"Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn't be any freedom."
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"In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches."
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"There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair."
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"The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion."
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"I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me."
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"Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good, but the Church must be made to appear evil in every respect."
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