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“The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.”

Ifs Has Beens Church Middle Century Built Plenty Decline Secular Mantras Demise Bursting 18th Century

Author:N. T. Wright

“The church was custom built by Jesus, and we are all works in progress. We do not expect people to get their sin in order before attending church any more than a hospital expects people to get healed before they show up.”

People Shows Order Jesus Church Sin Progress Built Customs Hospitals Healed Attending Work In Progress Attending Church

Book:A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

Source: A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“The apostles and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith. Wherefore, just as they may not institute another Church, so neither may they deliver another faith, nor institute other sacraments.”

May Church Powerful Built Catholic Sacraments Governing Apostles Institute Successors Vicars

Book:Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section)

Source: Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section)

“The church of the elect, which is partly militant on earth, and partly triumphant in heaven, resembles a city built on both sides of a river. There is but the stream of death between grace and glory. Death, to God's people, is but a ferry-boat.”

People Earth Heaven Sides Church Cities Grace Glory Built Rivers Boat Streams Both Sides Triumphant Militant Ferry

Book:The works of Augustus M. Toplady

Source: The works of Augustus M. Toplady

“It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The fact before us is that all ideas of gods can be traced to the earliest stages of human history.... There is an unbroken line of descent linking the gods of the most primitive peoples to those of modern man. We reject the world of the savage; but we still, in our churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, perpetuate the theories he built upon that world.”

“Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.”

Facts Black Church Built Black Women Pulpit

Author:Maya Angelou

“Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.”

Church Built Laughed Scorn

Book:The Poems of William Cowper ...

Source: The Poems of William Cowper ...

“Alas! Much has been done of late to promote the production of dwarfish Christians. Poor, sickly believers turn the church into an hospital, rather than an army. Oh, to have a church built up with the deep godliness of people who know the Lord in their very hearts, and will seek to follow the Lamb wherever he goes!”

People Knows Heart Has Beens Done Christian Turns Church Poor Lord Late Built Army Productions Believer Hospitals Alas Lambs Godliness

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“The Church has realized that anything and everything can be built up on a document of that sort, no matter how contradictory or irreconcilable with it. The faithful will swallow it whole, so long as logical reasoning is never allowed to be brought to bear on it.”

Long Matter Whole Church Religious Bears Built Faithful Reasoning Logical Documents Contradictory Anything And Everything Logical Reasoning

Author:Adolf Hitler

“It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached; for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing-, while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen down, were mingled with the churchyard earth and overgrown with grass, as if they too claimed a burying-place and sought to mix their ashes with the dust of men.”

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces

“Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.”

May Hard Church Built Stones Twelve Apostles

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all times, it has opposed the liberty of thought and expression. It has been the sworn enemy of investigation and intellectual development. It has denied the existence of facts, the tendency of which was to undermine its power. It has always been carrying fagots to the feet of Philosophy. It has erected the gallows for Genius. It has built the dungeon for Thinkers.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll