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.

The adulterous connection between church and state.

No creed can be stretched to the size of truth; no church can be made as large as man.

This is God’s House; but ’tis to be deplored, more come to see the house than serve its Lord.

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.