"I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards."
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"I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church."
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"Theres a lot of churches that hide their dirty laundry under the rug, and I know about that from being in the church 27 years. Oh, yeah."
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"Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box."
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"Whatever your woman is into, you better be into. Whatever your man is into, you better be N2. Your partner into church, you better be into church. Your man or woman a crack head, you better be a crack head ... Otherwise it just won't work."
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"I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny."
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"Turn in your guns at your local church"
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"The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world."
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"The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence."
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"Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school."
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"It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m."
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"If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church"
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"The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition of knowledge, even though not sinful, is dangerous, since it may lead to pride of intellect, and hence to a questioning of the Christian dogma."
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"The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse."
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"Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point."
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"I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we rather lost it in the 19th Century, we became so much part of empire and colonialism, the language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time. As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church's role in losing people."
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"I think what we're really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church."
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"The bible is not a blueprint for every day of your life, it is an inspiration not a blueprint. That requires that we listen to one another and get challenged and grow by living with difference within the body of the church."
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"I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived."
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"The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all."
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