Church Finance Quotes

My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.

Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to do for him, and the one thing he never fails to want is more money.

"Would you tax God?" asks a defender of church tax exemption. Well, if there were a God he should be able to pay his own way and support his own business. If not, then he should do like other business men and close up shop.

It is a tragedy when the church saves money instead of saving souls. We MUST spend to save.

Our ministers are well paid, and by my consent should be better if they would pray oftener and preach less.

Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money

To exempt the church from taxation is to pay part of the priest's salary.

Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.

If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.