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What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.

What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.
– Peter Rollins

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  2. Scripture was given to the church, and theology is a necessary work of the church, by the church, in the church, and for the church. – Kenneth S Kantzer
  3. I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not. – Idries Shah
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  5. If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back. – Tullian Tchividjian
  6. The church should be setting the pace. The church should be taking its proper place of leadership in the nation . . .God help the church to wake up! – Billy Graham
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  8. Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol. – Stanley Hauerwas
  9. What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. – Oscar Wilde
  10. We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories. – Steven C Rockefeller
  11. Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. – Judith Guest
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  18. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol. – AW Tozer
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