Freedom Quote by Van Steenwyk, Mark

“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

“A church with no conflict is likely a church that is manufacturing peace in a way that prohibits glory.”

— James MacDonald

“Religion in modern society is only artificially kept together and upheld by the Church and by those Governments to whose social or private interest…

— Ármin Vámbéry

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

— 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

To attempt to commit the Church to social and political programs may be a short cut . . to escape from the more difficult…

— J. H. Oldham

“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

“Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundaries of God’s kingdom transcend those of…

— Stanley Hauerwas

“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

“Subsequent revolutions have in like manner regarded the Church as Public Enemy number 1, precisely because it creates a realm of value and authority…

— Roger Scruton

“In the position of tension in which we are, between churchmanship and citizenship, our churchmanship is much freer than if we had better harmony…

— Anthony Bloom