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You can latch onto theological ideas that are, in fact, not accurate, and refuse to let them go. I think we've seen this a few times in church history.

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church, require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.