Church Quote by Mark Twain

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

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

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

“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

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

“We must have a religion — it goes without saying — but my idea is, to have it cut up into forty free sects,…

— Mark Twain

The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with…

— Glenn Archer

“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

churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand…

— Georgia Harkness

Government has crowded out the role of many social institutions, including the Church, that have been a great force for good in public life.

— Wendy Long

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