Church Quotes

I think Margaret Thatcher started it, the greed thing, people just wanting more and more. And we’ve lost our morals to some extent. And the church has weakened. People don’t believe in anything apart from money and success.

I have had great responsibilities in the Catholic Church. All the greater is my pain for the abuses and the errors that occurred in those different places during the time of my mandate.

It’s hard to embrace something that doesn’t embrace you.

He who is near the church is often far from God.

Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

We must condemn christianity, not christians; strike the church, but spare the heart.

If it wasn’t for the storm outside (the church) one could not stand the stink within!

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Orthodoxy survives only by right of possession. Turn it out of the churches and it would never reenter them. The church to-day is a hospital for sick dogmas. Every Christian doctrine is a cripple; not one can walk or stand alone. Orthodoxy has put a false valuation on things. It calls a man good who […]