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Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

— Alan Hirsch The Faith of Leap (2011)

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An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.

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