If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.
Alice Walker

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
Edith Stein

Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.
Edith Stein

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
H. L. Mencken

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Henry Ward Beecher

A church debt is the devil's salary.
Henry Ward Beecher

When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.
Saint Ambrose

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
Ulysses S. Grant

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
Clarence Darrow

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. Wells

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Susan B. Anthony

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
William Penn

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
E. Stanley Jones

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
James Joyce

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
Saint Ignatius

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.
James Carville

The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.
James Carville

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.
Richard Pryor