Some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid to join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
Church Quotes
My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.
To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against that liberty of conscience which is one of the foundations of American life.
No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or nonattendance.
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.
He goes to church on Sunday, He passes round the contribution box; But meet him in his office on a Monday, He’s crooked and as cunning as a fox; On Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday He’s robbing everybody that he can; But he goes to church on Sunday So they say that he’s an honest […]
Outer truths had such primacy that Christ was abandoned. As the Church drops certain practices and ideals, the world picks them up and secularizes them. As the rosary is dropped, hippies put them around their necks; as nuns drop the long habits, girls put on maxi-coats; as mysticism is forgotten, youths go in for psychedelic […]
Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours. (“B.C.”)
It is no surprise that when today’s affluent young professionals return to church, they want to do it only on their own terms – what’s amazing is how far the churches are going to oblige.
