Church Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity…

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with…

— Jeremy Bentham

The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.

— Frank Pavone

Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

“Church doctrine has no place in secular law. You can't take away people's rights to meet your own religious criteria.”

— Marie Sexton

“Allow me to sum it up this way; if the Church allows this secular humanistic "social gospel" into its hallowed halls, then it is…

— Curtis A. Chamberlain

“When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to…

— Harry A. Blackmun

In the end, the church will either declare the truth of God's Word, or it will find a way to run away from it.

— Albert Mohler