Gary North Quotes

The union of church and state put the church under a political control.... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state.

About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.

In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.

Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.

If the distinction provided by Jesus' words: Give unto god, what is god's, and unto Caesar what is Caesar's! is carried through, then other necessary intrusions by the national state into the domain of church creeds can be completely avoided.

The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is narrative, it is, in my opinion, historical. As to the fabulous element in the Old Testament, I very much doubt if you would be wise to chuck it out.

Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant. They're quite clear that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the 10 Commandments.

Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.

There's this morbid side to the way many represent Christianity today, where you don't smile, because it's too serious, and you can't expect to see God - that kind of stuff. If there is God, we must see Him, and I don't believe in the idea you find in most churches, where they say, "No, you're not going to see Him. He's way up above you. Just believe what we tell you and shut up."

The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.

It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts.

Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church

The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.

Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The government says to the citizen: “Your earnings are not exclusively your own; we have a claim on them, and our claim precedes yours; we will allow you to keep some of it, because we recognize your need, not your right; but whatever we grant you for yourself is for us to decide.

He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a "God government" in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).

Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

The Bible is interpreted by the Talmud. Except, in Rabbinic tradition, a Talmudic law has the weight of the Biblical law. Sometimes we say in a prayer, "Blessed are Thou, O God, who has ordered us and commended us," to do something. But you don't find that "something" in the Bible; you find it in the Talmud. So Talmudic law becomes as important as Biblical law.

It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis.

To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.

It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.