The near to the church, the further from God.
Church Quotes
Every national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God – as if the way to God was not open to every man alike.
To build one house for man is better than to build a dozen houses to God.
Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.
It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any.
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.
The church or company of worshipers (whether true or false) is like unto a corporation, society, or company: which companies may hold their courts, keep their records, hold disputations, and in matters concerning their society may dissent, divide, break into schisms and factions, sue and implead each other at the law, yea wholly break up […]
Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, will never mark the marble with his name.
I still went to church regularly, though, until I was eighteen years old. Then suddenly, the light bulb went on over my head. All the mindless morbidity and discipline was pretty sick – bleeding this, painful that and no meat on Friday. What is this shit?
