“The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of.Our attention would have been on God.”
C.S. Lewis
“Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not bet”
Mark Twain
“An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.”
Leo Rosten
“The females you'll find warming church pews on Sunday morning will give you a better ride than you can get by going to a bar or whorehouse, and they're clean and don't smell like an ashtray.”
Bobby W. Miller
“That church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves;”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“I do my best thinking by the ocean. As much as I enjoy church service, I've always felt closer to God by the sea.”
Roma Downey
“He who is near the church is often far from God”
French Proverb