The Church

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     "The church is never a place but always a people; never a fold but always a flock; never a sacred building but always a believing assembly. The church is you who pray, not where you pray. A structure of brick or marble can no more be a church than your clothes of serge or satin can be you. There is in this world nothing sacred but man, no sanctuary of God but the soul. It is a greater wrong to defame the humblest of God's saints than it would be to fire a cathedral: the former is sacrilege, the latter incendiarism; the former is sin, the latter a crime; the former God will punish, the latter man will. Never lower the Divine ideal that on earth man alone is the habitation of God." --Arthur White (as quoted in American Christian Review).