"The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it. ... The church and civilization are antipodal; one means authority, the other freedom; one means conservatism, the other progress; one means the rights of God as interpreted by the priesthood, the other the rights of humanity as interpreted by humanity. Civilization advances by free thought, free speech, free men."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Matilda Joslyn Gage : ‘Church, Woman and State’, New York, 1893. reprinted by Voice of India, New Delhi, 1997 p. 539-540
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Church
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Church
64 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Church →
Related Quotes
"Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere."
"The itch of disputation will break out Into a scab of error."
"A beggarly people, A church and no steeple."
"It was founded upon a rock."
"Sed non solum locum Ecclesiae zelare debemus, sed hanc quoque interiorem in nobis domum Dei; ne sit domus negotiation…"
"When I faced a congregation, it began to take all the strength I had not to stammer, not to curse, not to tell them t…"
"[C]hurches have tended to become conditioned more by our culture than by our Christ. So often our churches merely ref…"
"As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether."
"There can be no church in which the demon will not have his chapel."
"I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired a…"