Church Quotes

Civilization will not attain perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. (Émile Zola)
My own mind is my own church. View quote
Thomas Paine
He, who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own Sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. View quote
George Carlin
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity. View quote
Matthew Henry
There is no salvation outside the church. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state. View quote
James K. Polk
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. View quote
Tertullian
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any. View quote
William Penn
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. (Willa Cather)
She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life. View quote
Thomas S. Monson
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! View quote
William Blake
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. View quote
Lenny Bruce
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. View quote
Russell Baker
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church. View quote
Matthew Henry
People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking. View quote
Richard Stallman
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel. (Martin Luther)
For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas. View quote
Gerald Ford
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?" View quote
Jerome
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand. View quote
Leo Durocher
In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. View quote
Karl Barth