If it wasn’t for the storm outside (the church) one could not stand the stink within!
Church Quotes
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.
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.
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.
Mid-eighteenth century America had a smaller proportion of church members than any other nation in Christendom… in 1800 (only) one of every fifteen Americans was a church member.
No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns… in all these he has liberty; but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.
A friend once remarked that if (George W.) Bush had stopped going to church at the age of 40 he would still have attended more than most people do in a lifetime. But, again, Bush was bored by the time he arrived at midlife. Laura took him to a James Dobson seminar in hopes of […]
