| "If ever a man could have felt the church to be unnecessary, he was Jesus. Yet he did not stay away form the church of his day. It was his custom to go to the synagogue on the Sabbath, and he made many trips to the temple." »R. Brokhoff |
| "Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate." »Ulysses S. Grant |
| "The church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the church." »Ferdinand Magellan |
| "There is no salvation outside the church." »Saint Cyprian |
| "My own mind is my own church." »Carl Lotus Becker |
| "He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father." »Saint Augustine |
| "Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel." »Danish proverb |
| "I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The church is near, but the way is icy, The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully." »Ukranian Proverb |
| "A man is accepted into church for what he believes--and turned out for what he knows." »Mark Twain |
| "Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ." »Martin Luther |
| "Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'" »Saint Jerome |
| "...There is no such thing as ... separation of state and church ... in the Constitution. It's a lie of the left." »Pat Robertson |
| "Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church it is a goodly Christian weapon." »Martin Luther |
| "I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence." »Doug McLeod |
| "I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
| "I'm completely in favor of the separation of church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." »George Carlin |
| "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism." »Michael Horton |
| "A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday." »Russell Wayne Baker |
| "Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "The true church is not an organization, nor does one join it through the noisy mechanics of denominational machinery. Rather it is a living organism, a body, and believers are joined to it by the quiet working of the Holy Spirit." »Cornelius Stam |
| "The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always." »Willa Sibert Cather |
| "I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself." »Peter Hoeg |
| "The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind." »Heinrich Heine |
| "If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt." »Robert H Bork |
| "What a terrible time this is to be a Christian. The churches have failed and betrayed us, and the ministry preaches hate and murder. If there is a sane and reasoning voice in the Christian church today it is sadly silent." »Francois Arouet |
| "Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe." »Henry Anatole Grunwald |
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