"The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ"

"The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament"

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile"

"I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming"

"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being"

"The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting"

"For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel"

"Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church"

"It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any"

"If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray"

"I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it"