To the Church I once went, but I grieved and I sorrowed; for the season was Lent, and the sermon as borrowed.
Church Quotes
One should not go into church if one wants to breathe pure air.
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
The difference between going to church and a baseball game is that at church, you sing out “Stand Up for Jesus,” while at a baseball game you shout “Siddown, for Chrissakes!”
Discovering the Church is apt to be a slow procedure but it can take place if you have a free mind and no vested interest in disbelief.
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.
The building of a “skyscraper church” would seem to be a move in the right direction.
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. I believe it was Magellan who said, “The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a […]
The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.
To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.
