The civil Government, though bereft of every thing like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Before the Christian Church goes into eclipse anywhere there must first be a corrupting of her simple basic theology. She simply gets… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“A carpenter witnessed to me about Christ. He died knowing he had brought only my wife and me to faith, but we… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“The 4th century church was later replaced by the building that exists in present-day Bethlehem. Between 530 and 533, Emperor Justinian I… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages.… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Seven hundred thousand men are said to have perished in the first two expeditions, which had been thus commenced and carried on… — Elihu Palmer Copy Share Image
The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie? — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit—they say the Holy… — George Barna Copy Share Image
A greater persecution shall befall the Christian Church than has ever been in Africa, and will last until the year 1792, when… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I want to walk into a Christian Church, and or a Jewish Synagogue, and or a Muslim Mosque, and yell at… — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect… — Robert Rainy Copy Share Image
The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being ... must first divorce himself… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
All the modern christian churches, who deny new revelation, have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher… — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
[Pope Francis] most recent trip was to Sweden, where he commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. That had triggered one… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
The trouble with Christianity was that by about 150, there were hardly any Jews left in the Christian church, and so from… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . .… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“There is no problem with the wider culture that you cannot see in the spades in the Christian Church. The rot is… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“Once we have fully recognized the specificity of the seven messages to the churches, it is possible to ask whether John also… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
“Christianity, the grown-up child of Judaism, time to time got free from the leash of the Jews but it was always brought… — Anton U. Brown Copy Share Image
“Since the orthodox Christian church continued to slip farther and farther toward the belief that sex was evil, the doctrine of the… — Joseph B. Lumpkin Copy Share Image
“But in every church there are people who, for reasons which seem sufficient to them, do not approve of their pastor and… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“We shall, as we ripen in grace, have greater sweetness towards our fellow Christians. Bitter-spirited Christians may know a great deal, but… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian… — Bill McCartney Copy Share Image