Church Quotes

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God’s work.

I use an image of a cathedral, which I call the cathedral of the world. It has many, many windows, and we can’t even get close to exploring one apse during our lifetime. But we are born in one part of the cathedral, and our parents and grandparents and neighbors teach us the ways in […]

The divorce between church and state ought to be absolute. It ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no church property anywhere, in any state, or in any nation, should be exempt from taxation, for if you exempt the church property of any church organization, to that extent you impose tax […]

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

For all in common she prays, for all in common she works, in the temptations of all she is tried.

It (the Holy Roman Church) firmly believes, professes, and proclaims that those not living within the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics cannot become participants in eternal life, but will depart into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels… , and that no one, whatever […]

But if at the Church they would give us some Ale. And a pleasant fire, our souls to regale; We’d sing and we’d pray, all the live-long day; Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray, (“The Little Vagabond”)