Assembly Quote by Charles Hodge

The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent…

— Charles Hodge

If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it…

— Charles Hodge

The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.

— Charles Hodge

“The American tradition of separation of church and state grew directly from the freethinking of the Founders. After political independence, they considered independence of…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

The Churches belong together in the Church. What that may mean for our ecclesiastical groupings we do not know. We have not discovered the…

— Hugh Martin

organization is the religion of the single parent.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“if God had a church it would not be split up into factions, and that if he taught one society to worship one way,…

— Joseph Smith Jr

Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of love, equality,…

— Erich Fromm

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot, and ought not to be forced. This is a fundamental article of the American…

— Philip Schaff

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now…

— John Adams

A church can be unified in one of two ways. You can freeze together, as the Church of the Frozen Chosen; or you can…

— John Hagee

The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church…

— Anonymous