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"The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it."
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"Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable."
"Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples."
"It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any."
"When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church."
"If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them."
"Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have."
"I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church."
"There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility."
"I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers."
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"Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on."
"If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own."
"There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making."
"The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things."
"God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction."
"Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false."
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