Book Quote by Pope Pius XII

It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much…

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves…

— Martin Luther

Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus…

— Thomas Jefferson

However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and…

— Claudio Hummes

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not…

— Robert A. Heinlein

As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so neither has…

— John Locke

The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

— Claudio Hummes

[Confiscating a book and punishing its author] is a sign that one does not have a good case, or at least doesn't trust it…

— Laszlo Radvanyi

When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see,…

— Robert Heinlein

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

— David Mamet

The danger of silent accumulations & encroachments by Ecclesiastical Bodies have not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S. [...] Besides the danger of a…

— James Madison

The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

— John Stott