Quote by Alice McDermott

“But now that was all gone by, and had left her neither happier nor wiser; and the best she could do with her mornings…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The church smelled like leftover tears. Sadness was tucked into corners and hidden under beams and pasted so thick on the walls that it…

— Jennifer Gooch Hummer

“But I am telling you: I would prefer a thousand times over a bruised Church to an ill Church!”

— Pope Francis

“It felt exactly like someone had hit me in the head with a church.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“What I got out of church was a love of God, and a detestable feeling for the men standing in the way of Him—and…

— Jarod Kintz

“That morning set in motion a series of events that caused me to wrestle with questions of God’s goodness.”

— K. Howard Joslin

“What did you say, Gram? About there being no church out here?" "I said that the sky was the roof of my cathedral and…

— Terri Farley

“Well, what I don't understand is why people get all dressed up and drive to church so they can sit there and get scolded.…

— Beth Hoffman

“It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church.”

— Barbara Comyns

“...and wondered if we in the church are missing it.”

— Francis Chan

“Want to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.”

— DiAnn Mills

“I had once thought that Christianity was a soft, wish-fulfillment religion. Now I saw that it was entirely the opposite.”

— Holly Ordway