Church Quote by Pope Benedict XVI

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

— George Pell

“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

“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

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

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

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 must take right ground in regard to politics... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and…

— Charles Grandison Finney

I think that the church has to develop its own agenda, and not allow itself to be consumed by either party to the chagrin…

— T. D. Jakes

Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix…

— Pope Francis

The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.

— John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon