Church Quotes

“Attend your Church,” the parson cries: To church each fair one goes; The old go there to close their eyes, The young to eye their clothes.

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.

If it wasn’t for the storm outside (the church) one could not stand the stink within!

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Orthodoxy survives only by right of possession. Turn it out of the churches and it would never reenter them. The church to-day is a hospital for sick dogmas. Every Christian doctrine is a cripple; not one can walk or stand alone. Orthodoxy has put a false valuation on things. It calls a man good who […]

The near to the church, the further from God.