Mid-eighteenth century America had a smaller proportion of church members than any other nation in Christendom… in 1800 (only) one of every fifteen Americans was a church member.
Church Quotes
No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns… in all these he has liberty; but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.
A friend once remarked that if (George W.) Bush had stopped going to church at the age of 40 he would still have attended more than most people do in a lifetime. But, again, Bush was bored by the time he arrived at midlife. Laura took him to a James Dobson seminar in hopes of […]
It is well said that “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” and I am confirmed every day in my intense conviction that the church as the church is the enemy of freedom. While protesting loudly its faith in the Truth with a capital T, “the truth shall make us free,” it fights at every […]
Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as they came from his lips, the whole civilised world would now have been Christian.
The English Established Church… will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.
The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.
Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church… made of Christendom a slaughter-house.
As a Jefferson deist four days a week and a Thoreau pantheist the remaining three, I go to church nearly every morning. My church is a secret live oak in Brackenridge Park.
History reveals the Church and the State as a pair of indispensable Molochs. They protect their worshiping subjects, only to enslave and destroy them.
