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It is
indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all
laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of
inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which
make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be
slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather,
and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and
the business of his own life is to dine.
-- Jane Austen
1775-1817, British Novelist
The Church is
not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but
a school for the education of imperfect ones.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher,
Orator, Writer
The Church
cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and
throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.
-- Robert Mcafee Brown
The church
exists to train its member through the practice of the
presence of God to be servants of others, to the end that
Christlikeness may become common property.
-- William Adams Brown
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