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> [The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-chambers/the-institutions-of-churchianity-are-not-christianity-an-institution/)

[Oswald Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oswald-chambers/)

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> [“What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/what-right-have-such-men-to-represent-christianity-as-if-it-were-an/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [“The fact that it was the “Christian church” which chose to do the evils you write about, and to do them using…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-a-boyd/the-fact-that-it-was-the-christian-church-which-chose-to-do-the-evils/)

[Gregory A. Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-a-boyd/)

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