"It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches."
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"For years, I just did not like this idea of God, church."
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"I want a big church wedding."
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"A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised."
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"The Church of Christ, zealous and cautious guardian of the dogmas deposited with it, never changes any phase of them. It does not diminish them or add to them; it neither trims what seems necessary now grafts things superfluous . . . but it devotes all its diligence to one aim: To treat tradition faithfully and wisely; to consolidate and to strengthen what already was clear; and to guard what already was confirmed and defined."
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"...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply."
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"That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries."
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"If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church."
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"When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my tombstone."
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"Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely."
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"The church is the gym of the soul."
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"You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul."
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"There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you."
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"I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage."
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"By the time we got to Courageous, we were bringing in more outsiders, so any time we would bring in outsiders, we would offer to pay them, and [as for volunteers from] the church, because they were getting the benefit of the income to all the ministries of the church and the mission, the building program and all those things, they knew up-front that they were volunteering and gladly did so."
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"With Courageous, it was the first film where we really began to pay our cast. Because the church owned the previous films and we started so small, with such small budgets, people were just volunteering on the cast and crew."
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"Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution."
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"When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on [gay] marriage, that's when it's time to resist."
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"You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people."
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"Acting was always something I pursued by myself. When we were in college, I took an acting class that I was so passionate about and devoted to, but I went to it privately and never really spoke about it. I'd have these ecstatic experiences in, like, a church basement and then never talk about it with other people."
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