Character Quote by Bertrand Russell

“The Church has been trying to preach morality and ethics without the Gospel as a basis; it has been preaching morality without godliness; and…

— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“In my opinion, the Church only possesses the moral authority to speak to others about its ethics only when it holds itself accountable at…

— Scott S. Haraburda

“When the church aligns itself politically, it gives priority to the compromises and temporal successes of the political world rather than its Christian confession…

— Charles W. Colson

“I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous.…

— Mark Twain

“will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious, and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religious. Nothing…

— Mark Twain

“The Church was not left in this world to perfume the dung-heap of fallen humanity, but to take out, one by one, those who…

— Anonymous

“we, the church, are the embodiment of Christ’s compassion, and that he has poured out God’s Spirit on us precisely to activate our just…

— D. Brent Laytham

“The Church still prizes the Moral Sense as man's noblest asset today, although the Church knows God had a distinctly poor opinion of it…

— Mark Twain

“If it were not for the Church of Christ there would be nothing to restrain the criminal from evil-doing, no real chastisement for it…

— Anton Chekhov

“The Church risks irrelevance when it makes central God's preference for the poor and not His universal favor toward the poor in spirit.”

— Gilbert Mylender

“For the church, the many abuses of human life, liberty, and dignity are a heartfelt suffering. The church, entrusted with the earth’s glory, believes…

— Oscar A. Romero

“The Church pleaseth it selfe too much which scorns and disdaines other Churches, as unworthy of her Communion, for some weakness in their understanding,…

— John Davenant