"The fact is, it is selfish for a church to not want to grow. A church that says, 'We've got enough people, we've got a nice fellowship. Our church is just the right size. We just need to focus on the members we already have. That church is, in reality, actually saying, 'The rest of the world can go to hell. We don't care."

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"The fact is, it is selfish for a church to not want to grow. A church that says, 'We've got enough people, we've got a nice fellowship. Our church is just the right size. We just need to focus on the members we already have. That church is, in reality, actually saying, 'The rest of the world can go to hell. We don't care."

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"But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings."

"Life in Christ is far richer."

"O Lord, grant me the grace of endurance, in the race of life."

"Lord, thank you for the courage to live life."

"Only God can set the soul in bondage free."

"You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility."

"All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life."

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