Church Quote by J. H. Oldham

When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our stewardship becomes…

— Erwin McManus

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

— George Pell

[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so…

— James A. Michener

Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get tough. In a world where white…

— J. D. Vance

There's a way to accomplish the separation of church and state, and at the same time, accomplish the social objective of having America become…

— George W. Bush

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

Those who insist that a Church program exist for every contingency and need are as much in error as their counterparts who demand that…

— Dean L. Larsen

“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

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 is too easy to call the church political. The nature of fallen people is political. And they happen to make up the church.…

— Mea McMahon

The primary role of the church is to reflect God's value system in society and to train people in that value system. It's not…

— Tony Evans

We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work, is not to get persons to join the church or to…

— R. A. Torrey