Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fathoms deep, marching bravely to pull out plugs in bathtubs.
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What the church is really concerned about is what endures.
There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.
Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.
We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.
Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them.
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