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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

We are no longer a nation of one church; we are a nation of many churches.

I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.

Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.