"The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it."
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"Some of the most remarkable and profound worship encounters I've experienced have happened in churches with no production, no lighting, no exciting visuals or amplification, sometimes with not even a single musical instrument."
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"The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world."
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"Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town, class, guild; yet they wear, instead, the chains of the state, and they expire of ennui or stifling lone lines."
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"For me, there's no difference between what's temporary and what's definitive. I built the church in Kobe, which was supposed to be temporary, and people liked it so much that there's a version of it still there today - unlike some concrete buildings that were just built for money and that can be destroyed from one day to the next. Concrete can be very fragile during earthquakes."
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"There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not dignitaries, because in the rational religion of every individual there does not yet exist a church as a universal union (omnitudo collectiva)."
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"Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school."
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"What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them?"
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"The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer."
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"Growing up in the church in West Virginia, faith is always there. It's part of the fabric of the culture."
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"Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself."
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"What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?"
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"We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity."
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"The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts."
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"There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel."
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"I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church."
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"We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be our duty to foster especially literature and the fine arts ... next to knowledge and true worship of the Creator, nothing is better or more useful to mankind than such studies."
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"Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble."
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"Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church."
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"You are not so good a Christian when you are neglecting a plain duty as when you are performing it. And joining the church is a plain duty for all who mean to be Christians."
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