Active Quote by Claudio Hummes

The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.

— Pope Benedict XVI

The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

— Erwin McManus

The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it…

— Mark Twain

It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of the church…

— George Eldon Ladd

Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist.

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

— Pope Benedict XVI

The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.

— Frank Pavone

The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.

— George Pell

A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures

— Carl Braaten