"I sang in church at 5. When I saw the reaction, I knew what I wanted to do with my life."
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"How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company."
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"These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction."
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"the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon."
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"A temple is a landscape of the soul."
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"This is the highest honour of the Church, that, until He is united to us, the Son of God reckons himself in some measure imperfect. What consolation is it for us to learn, that, not until we are along with him, does he possess all his parts, or wish to be regarded as complete! Hence, in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, when the apostle discusses largely the metaphor of a human body, he includes under the single name of Christ the whole Church."
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"It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ."
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"There is a prophetic release that occurs in a church or an individual who fasts continually for forty days."
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"Some people think they are too good to walk the same earth as the rest of us, let alone attend the same church."
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"I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle."
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"Why is the church always a taillight rather than a headlight?"
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"The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo."
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"Cujus region, ejus rligio (Whoever's reign, his religion) ... He who owns the country owns the Church, and he that makes your laws for you has the right to make your religion for you."
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"Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church."
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"No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another."
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"[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music."
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"In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life."
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"Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion."
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"Anyone attempting to live a Christian lifestyle will always be pressed towards settling for "nominal Christianity." For the believer who lives in the Bible Belt, it can become less about whether one is living his or her life in complete and total sold-out devotion to God, and more about where I'm going to lunch after church. If I live in an area where Christians are in the minority, there is the pressure to take a more a la carte approach to one's belief system. It's safer to take some of God's teachings and apply the parts we like but push aside that which seems too extreme or exclusive."
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"Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits."
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