Church Quotes

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 […]

Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, will never mark the marble with his name.

I still went to church regularly, though, until I was eighteen years old. Then suddenly, the light bulb went on over my head. All the mindless morbidity and discipline was pretty sick – bleeding this, painful that and no meat on Friday. What is this shit?

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.

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.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

The Church, immersed in civil society, does not seek any type of political power in order to carry out her mission; she wishes only to be the fruitful seed of everyone’s good by her presence in the structures of society. Her first concern is the human person and the community in which the individual lives; […]

Church: A place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to people who will never get there.