“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.”
Source: 1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)
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Source: Sister Wendy Beckett, on same-sex marriage, from a Huffington Post interview titled 'Sister Wendy, My Semi-Spiritual Guide' dated 17 November 2007.
A statement rejecting formal sectarian organizations and claims, this has been cited to a quotation in Picturesque America by William Cullen Bryant, p. 502, first published in 1872, but such a statement has not been located in the 1874 or 1894 editions.
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“The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.”
“It was through looking at churches that I came to believe in the reason churches were built.”
The Best of Betjeman, John Guest, Penguin Modern Classics, 1985. Written in 1948. (Blisland)
Interview in Christianity Today, October 2006
Captain Francis McCullagh, "The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity," page 238.
Addressing the court shortly before being sentenced to ten years in the GULAG.
“I do not believe in infallible men, nor in an infallible church, nor in an infallible book”
Defence at his Heresy Trial
[Haggard, Ted, Dog Training, Fly Fishing, And Sharing Christ In The 21st Century: Empowering Your Church To Build Community Through Shared Interests, Nelson Books, May 14, 2002, p. 9, ISBN 0785265147]