Ability Quote by Roger Williams

The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and…

— Sonia Johnson

“It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put their faith there and let the smaller securities…

— John Steinbeck

The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.

— David O. McKay

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities…

— John Steinbeck

All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no…

— George Mason

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort…

— Lysander Spooner

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are…

— Edmund Burke

[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it excels the…

— Bertrand Russell

I'm not an expert in the sociological realities of all the pastors in the world, but I would say that there are some very,…

— Henry Cloud

While all men within our territories are protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of their consciences; it is rationally to be…

— George Washington