“The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.”
Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian
“It is no fault in others that the Methodist Church sends more soldiers to the field, more nurses to the hospital, and more prayers to Heaven than any. God bless the Methodist Church — bless all the churches — and blessed be to God, who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.”
To the 1864 general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as quoted in Abraham Lincoln : A History Vol. 6 (1890) by John George Nicolay and John Hay, Ch. 15, p. 324
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