Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as they came from his lips, the whole civilised world would now have been Christian.
Church Quotes
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.
Article I Section 16 Free exercise of religion; no establishment of religion. That religion or the duty which we owe to our creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion […]
I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
The Church, immersed in civil society, does not seek any type of political power in order to carry out her mission; she wishes only to be the fruitful seed of everyone’s good by her presence in the structures of society. Her first concern is the human person and the community in which the individual lives; […]
