"The church is a place where we make our prejudice sacred."
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"A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute."
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"Do what your momma tells you to do, go to sunday school, go to church, and when you die, you'll go to Statesboro."
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"I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons."
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"Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel."
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"You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it."
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"I call that church free which enters into the covenant with the ultimate source of existence. It binds together families and generations, protecting against the idolatry of any human claim to absolute truth or authority."
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"We as a church need to decide whether we'll seek the Anointing of God or the God of the Anointing"
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"I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England."
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"About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only."
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"And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day .... The reason why we keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason that we observe many other things, not because the Bible, but because the church has enjoined it."
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"Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state."
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"It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause."
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"If you find a perfect church don't join it: You'd spoil it."
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"It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church."
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"The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table."
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"I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn't find him there. Then I went to a church and I didn't find him there. The I went to a mosque and I didn't find him there. Then finally I looked in my heart and there he was."
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"What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity."
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"There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church."
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"She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show."
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