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title: "2 Institutions Christian Quotes by 2 authors"
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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 God’s name, in my mind only serves to show that all that goes under the name of “Christian”…](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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> [The most important Christian Education institution is not the pulpit or the school, important as those institutions are; but it is the Christian family. And that institution has to a very large extent ceased to do its work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gresham-machen/the-most-important-christian-education-institution-is-not-the-pulpit/)

[John Gresham Machen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gresham-machen/)

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