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> [It's true that when Christianity is socially powerful, faith can look from the outside as if it is mainly a matter of membership, of participation in the vast synchronised swim of institutions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/it-s-true-that-when-christianity-is-socially-powerful-faith-can-look/)

[Francis Spufford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-spufford/)

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> [When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another, even though he knows nothing about the visible church. His kind of Christianity may not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flannery-o-connor/when-you-leave-a-man-alone-with-his-bible-and-the-holy-ghost-inspires/)

[Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flannery-o-connor/)

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