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When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.