Age Quote by George Eldon Ladd

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the…

— Claudio Hummes

The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the…

— Andy Stanley

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

Government officials have no right to interfere in ecclesiastical matters in a way that undermines or disregards the God-given authority of pastors and elders.

— John MacArthur

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.

— James K. Polk

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

This Apostolic Church never turned from the way of truth nor held any kind of error. It is imperative that nothing of the truths…

— Pope Agatho

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

The highest honor in the church is not government but service.

— John Calvin

In many churches today the congregation rules the leaders. This sort of government is foreign to the New Testament.

— John Macarthur

There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of morality -…

— Dinesh D'Souza

The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.

— David Barton