But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative …

T. S. Eliot
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But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things. ✨ T. S. Eliot (2014). Christianity and Culture, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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