Faith Quote by Charles W. Colson

“When the church aligns itself politically, it gives priority to the compromises and temporal successes of the political world rather than its Christian confession…

— Charles W. Colson

The history of the Church has been a history of divisiveness, repression and reaction. For almost 2000 years, Christianity has held mankind back in…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“An interesting thought: "...Church history has been written by representatives of the dominant churches and from a party point of view..." p290”

— E.H. Broadbent- The Pilgrim Church

Power corrupts. If the Church is given too much power, it will become corrupted. So to keep the Church in line with the teachings…

— Ali Sina

“I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period.…

— Henry David Thoreau

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things:…

— Anonymous

“Why do some in society think that the church should not speak out on political issues? Why do some in the church think that…

— R.C. Sproul

“On all levels and in every aspect of our society, the poor are rejected, mistreated, and forced more deeply into their poverty. Christianity should…

— Frank Schaeffer

“It is true that historic Christianity is in conflict at many points with the collectivism of the present day; it does emphasize, against the…

— J. Gresham Machen

“...it is most certainly Christianity itself which is primarily responsible for the intellectual sloppiness of its critics. Apart from the single instance of Stalinism,…

— Terry Eagleton

“The Church has always had a conservative head and a liberal heart, and the world has never understood her, just as it never understood…

— Peter Kreeft

“It occurs to me that the situation of the church in our society, perhaps the church everywhere always, is entrusted with a truth that…

— Walter Brueggemann