Every national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God – as if the way to God was not open to every man alike.
Church Quotes
To build one house for man is better than to build a dozen houses to God.
Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.
It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any.
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.
The church or company of worshipers (whether true or false) is like unto a corporation, society, or company: which companies may hold their courts, keep their records, hold disputations, and in matters concerning their society may dissent, divide, break into schisms and factions, sue and implead each other at the law, yea wholly break up […]
The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.
Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church… made of Christendom a slaughter-house.
As a Jefferson deist four days a week and a Thoreau pantheist the remaining three, I go to church nearly every morning. My church is a secret live oak in Brackenridge Park.
