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“The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.”

Firsts Littles Ends School Church Atheism Youth Comfort Safety Quests Typical Safety First

Author:Edgar Lee Masters

“We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.”

Body Age Church Youth Activity Old Age Repentance Compensation Farce Revelry

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“There are two keys to productive missionary work -- (1) family-to-family friendshipping (when a member family shares the gospel with a nonmember family) and (2) cooperation between members and the missionaries to reach people...Every member knows of nonmembers he or she can refer to the missionaries. Every father, mother, and youth in this church should share the gospel by giving a Book of Mormon, telling the account of the Prophet Joseph Smith, or inviting our acquaintances to a special meeting.”

“Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.”

Games Church Teach Groups Youth Apologetic

Book:Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

Source: Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

“For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass.”

Christ Church Youth Saint Glasses Ass Mortals Virgins Twists

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.”

Author:Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria