"The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone."
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"A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on."
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"If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes."
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"When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race."
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"Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go."
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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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"To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example."
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"When I'm really stressed out, I go to church. I light candles and sit and pray. And I'll ask myself, What's the lesson? Why am I going through this? There's got to be a reason I'm here. What am I supposed to learn?"
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"I am a Christian. My husband and I belong to the Episcopal Church."
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"Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God."
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"The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things."
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"Where there is real love one wants to go to church first."
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"Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse."
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"If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window."
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"Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you."
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"Before the church responded, a lot of people would ask us, 'Are you afraid of what the church would say?' And Trey and I were like, 'They're going to be cool.' And they were like, 'No, they're not. There are going to be protests.' And we were like, 'Nope, they're going to be cool.' We weren't that surprised by the church's response. We had faith in them."
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"The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of the church; the church is not the foundation for or creator of the Bible. The church and its hierarchy must be evaluated by the believer with the biblical gospel as the touchstone or plumb line for judging all truth claims."
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"All Christians have opportunities to serve those who might never come to church or listen to a sermon."
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"All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil."
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"In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring."
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