This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

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

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

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compass, not a weathercock.

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.