I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions like churches and families which stand between the state and individuals.

We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

If marriage really is a sacred institution then why is the government controlling it especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

The relationships that people have - that are sexual psychological emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents schools churches or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.

When any government or any church for that matter undertakes to say to its subjects This you may not read this you must not see this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do chapels had been churches and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

It is better to go skiing and think of God than go to church and think of sport.

The style of God venerated in the church mosque or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

If you love god burn a church.

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

It is common for those that are farthest from God to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

I don't mind saying you know that I don't take a salary from the church and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

For where God built a church there the Devil would also build a chapel.

I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called 'Jesus I Heard You Had a Big House' and I remember people standing up at the end and me thinking 'Oh I think I'm going to like this.' That's how it all began. Sounds funny to say you got your start in church but I did.

The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.