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"The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation."
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"Does the church offer answers for the complexions of 21st century problems?"
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"I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets."
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"We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides."
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"Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?"
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"I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church."
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"There are enough churches already, but the world still needs salvation."
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"Some will have to cease thinking of the Church as a memorial association for a deceased clergyman called Christ."
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"The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious."
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"Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded."
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"The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences."
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"The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation."
Church
"Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity."
Christian
"For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited."
Life
"The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence."
Religion
"A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled."
Life
"Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments."
Church
"The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency."
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"And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons."
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