Church Quotes

If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public servant sworn to uphold the Constitution, then I would reply to them that this was an improper action on their part. It was one to which I could not subscribe.

Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

I've never hidden my Christianity in Hollywood, and I've been handled respectfully because I handle the issue and other people respectfully.

I was born and raised Catholic.

I have some problems with conventional organized religion.

If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?—yea, dancing as well as playing, and several other Judaic actions? or, how can we decline a whole rabble of church-officers, necessary to be introduced for instrumental musick, whereof our Lord Jesus Christ hath left us no manner of direction?

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it. You ought because you can do more good with it than you could do without it. Money printed your Bible, money builds your churches, money sends your missionaries, and money pays your preachers, and you would not have many of them, either, if you did not pay them.

My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'

My Lutheran faith is important to me.

Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.

Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church

During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: “Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power to destroy the Catholic Church?” The cardinal, the anecdote goes, responded ruefully: “Your majesty, we, the Catholic clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last 1,800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.”

How hurtful to religion and the state is the concession to ministers of religion of any power of issuing decrees or transacting the business of government.

I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years.

For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart.

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

Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.

I like Christianity. I'm a fan of Jesus and his whole philosophy but not the social teaching aspects of it, of course.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.

In face of political differences, contradictions and struggle, the Church preaches peace and co-operation among people holding various political views