"The tavern will compare favorably with the church."
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"Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones."
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"The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building."
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"The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults."
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"If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public servant sworn to uphold the Constitution, then I would reply to them that this was an improper action on their part. It was one to which I could not subscribe."
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"I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ."
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"I got kicked out of my church and lost all of my friends, but I realized that I had to obey God and not man."
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"The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool."
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"This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour."
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"It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts."
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"The Missional church always thinks of the long haul rather than the quick fix"
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"In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they invariably ended by denying God, I think, and until all sexual irregularities and not some of them are penal the Church will never reconquer England."
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"A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. The liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the Gospel are responsible."
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"I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church."
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"There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa."
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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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"Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity."
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"I'm not denouncing the church, and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It's not a church worthy of denouncing."
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"Welcome to the church of me."
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"Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained"
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