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"Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable."

"The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it."

"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."
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"The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'"
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