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“This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are we must tread with awful reverence in the footsteps of our fathers']is the genuine fruit of the alliance between Church and State, the tenants of which finding themselves but too well in their present condition, oppose all advances which might unmask their usurpations and monopolies of honors, wealth and power, and fear every change as endangering the comforts they now hold.”

Source: Jefferson: Writings

“To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and the young people so merry one with another, and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and woman gazing and smiling at them.”

People Men Young Church Poor Morning Saws Conditions Strange Fool Married Men And Women Delight Every Man Merry Gazing

Author:Samuel Pepys

“Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.”

Should May Church Common Lord Conditions Benefits Favors Scripture Urges

Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“I will say broadly that I have more confidence in the spiritual life of the children that I have received into this church than I have in the, spiritual condition of the adults thus received. I will even go further than that, and say that I have usually found a clearer knowledge of the gospel and a warmer love of Christ in the child-converts than in the man-converts. I will even astonish you still more by saying that I have sometimes met with a deeper spiritual experience in children of ten and twelve than I have in certain persons of fifty and sixty.”

Men Children Persons Stills Sometimes Spiritual Certain Found Christ Church Conditions Mets Ten Adults Deeper Fifty Spiritual Life Twelve Sixty Spiritual Experience

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Praying for revival equates to blaming God for the condition of your local church.”

Church Conditions Praying Blame Locals Revival Local Church

Author:Andy Stanley

“When God brings deep conviction and I agree with Him about my condition, God restores my confidence in Him.”

Christian Leadership Church Conditions Agree Conviction

Author:Johnny Hunt

“If we think the main mission of the church is to improve life in Adam and add a little moral strength to this fading evil age, we have not yet understood the radical condition for which Christ is such a radical solution.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Age Evil Christ Church Moral Conditions Solutions Understood Add Missions Radical Adam Fading Moral Strength

Book:Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

Source: Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church