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Quotes About Church

The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.
~ Bruce L. Shelley
If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.
~ Thomas Paine
If we lose the spirit of 'go,' we have lost the very Christian spirit itself. A disobedient church will become a dead church. It will die of heart failure.
~ S. D Gordon
I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.
~ Rick Warren
Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!
~ Thomas Paine
Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.
~ Pope Pius XI
Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.
~ Stephen Spender
the church should just stay out of people's pants.
~ Alex Sanchez, The God Box
The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion
~ Anthony Trollope
I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.
~ Keith Ablow, Denial
When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko
~ Orson Scott Card, Magic Street
Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive
~ Ronald Reagan
Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.
~ Eleanor Clift
Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.
~ Michael Newdow
I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.
~ James Joyce
whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.
~ Kay Boyle
I know that the pope's infallible, but that doesn't mean he can't make mistakes.
~ Stephen Colbert
Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize the validity of any religion other than its own.
~ Susan Jacoby
The Europeans have fallen away from religion and the church while the rest of the world is seemingly more religious. I don't know how to explain it.
~ Sally Quinn
The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ's church.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting.
~ D. Patrick Miller
The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
~ Desiderius Erasmus