No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.
Church Quotes
Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all ages will turn to ashes on the lips of men.
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
The Church terrifieth with threats of exile and dungeons; and she, who of old gained men’s faith in spite of exile and prison, now brings them to believe in her by compulsion… She, who was propagated by hunted priests, now hunts priests in her turn…
The loathsome combination of Church and State.
The American idea is a free church in a free state, and a free and unsectarian public school in every ward and every village with its door wide open to children of all races and every creed.
I have followed (the Church) in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has never allowed the Creed to be interfered with. It is fifteen hundred years since it was formulated, but every suggestion for its amendment, every logical criticism, or attack on it, has been rejected. The […]
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared […]
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
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.
