“Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
Billy Sunday
“It’s a pontifex, a bridge to the skies, in fact the Pope himself is called Pontifex Maximus”
Father Mark Montebello
“This Greek idea of dualism is the problem deep down, this thing of having the spiritual on one side and the profane on the other. We are still grappling with this. Spirituality is a plus, sexuality a minus”
“I remember in Gozo villagers used to say one should have three altars: the Church, the word of God and the matrimonial bed. That showed there was no separation between the physical and the spiritual”
“I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.”
George Carlin
“A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.”
Abigail Van Buren
“We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?”
George Bernard Shaw
