"But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc."

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"But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc."

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Charles Hodge, American Theologian

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Charles Hodge, American Theologian

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"You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?"

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"My mind is my own church."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light."

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"Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church."

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"You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church."

Joel Osteen, American Clergyman

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"But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc."

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