Quotations on church


No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
-Felix Adler
In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.
-Thomas Campbell Clark
The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
-Charles de Gaulle
The church is actually patronized by the social order as a means of stabilizing and perpetuating the existing system.
-C. C. Morrison
The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
-William Ralph Inge