"If I was president of the good old U.S.A., I'd turn the churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray."
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"Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them."
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"I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church."
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"The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ."
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"The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community."
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"My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties."
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"Faith, then, is not a set of beliefs about the world. It is rather found in the loving embrace of the world. Because the actual existing church has reduced the Crucifixion and Resurrection to religious affirmations held by a certain tribe, rather than expressions of a type of life, the event they testify to has been almost completely eclipsed."
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"There is neither man or woman in this Church who is not on a mission. That mission will last as long as they live, and it is to do good, to promote righteousness, to teach the principles of truth, and to prevail upon themselves and everybody around them to live those principles that they may obtain eternal life"
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"If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself."
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"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives."
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"If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time."
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"The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others."
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"He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother."
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"Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one."
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"If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice."
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"A church that likes power likes prayer."
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"Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human."
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"The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state."
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"I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church.... Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink."
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"You have to understand that the Bible is really a library of books and it has different categories of material. There are certain parts which you have to say no to. The Bible accepted slavery. St Paul said women should not speak in church at all and there are people who have used that to say women should not be ordained. There are many things that you shouldn't accept."
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