If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.
Church Quotes
There are ten church members by inheritance for every one by conviction.
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.
Any God I ever felt in church, I brought in with me.
“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.
