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"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."
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"If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest."

"All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church, require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord."

"Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority."

"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."

"You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church."
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"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."


"Every man should stand under the blue and stars, under the infinite flag of nature, the peer of every other man."


"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others."


"Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell."


"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."


"Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others."


"I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains."


"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."
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