Charles H. Mason was the founder of The Church of God in Christ, one of the 10 largest denominations in America (and the second largest African-American denomination) with an estimated 6 million members. Here are a few of his words.

"The church is like the eye. It has a little white in it and a little black in it, and without both it can't see." --Charles H. Mason

"We look for help from above. God send it on home." --Charles H. Mason

"The word of God's wisdom casts down the enemy of our soul." --Charles H. Mason

"We receive and now enjoy thinking on the goodness and greatness of Jesus." --Charles H. Mason

"Let the will of God be done everywhere. Let men turn from their evil ways." --Charles H. Mason

"I wanted a religion like the one the old slaves had." --Charles H. Mason

"Blush you pretend voters for freedom! You trifling patriots who are making a vain parade of being advocates for the liberties of mankind, who are thus making a mockery of your profession by trampling on the sacred rights and privileges of Africans. For while you are fasting, praying, and pleading for a restoration of your rights, you are at the same time continuing this lawless, cruel, inhuman, and abominable practice of enslaving your fellow creatures." --John Allen 1774

"How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for freedom among the drivers of the Negroes?" --Samuel Johnson 1775

"I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong." --John Quincy Adams

"War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine." -General William Tecumseh Sherman

"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it." --General William Tecumseh Sherman

"Let it be understood that those who are not living by Christ's teachings are not Christians at all -- even though they might profess His teaching with their lips." --Justin Martyr

"The name of Jesus can still remove impediments from the minds of men. It can still expel demons and take away diseases." -Origen

"How can a man say he believes in Christ if he does not do what Christ commanded him to do?" --Cyprian

"The church, which is the true temple of God, does not consist of walls, but of the hearts and faith of men who believe on Him." -Lactantius

"If you bear God's name, but do not possess His power, it will be in vain that you bear His name." --Hermas

"Rather than laying down our souls for money, we lay down money for our souls." --Tertullian