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"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."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
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"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
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"Christmas makes everything twice as sad."
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"We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely."
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"Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ."
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"Christ would not vote for Barack Obama, because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved."
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"There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child."
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"I still go to a Christian priory for retreats."
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"The Jews and the Arabs should settle their dispute in the true spirit of Christian charity."
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"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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"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
"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
"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
"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
"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."
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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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