Angry Quote by Brennan Manning

“Aging and the prospect of dying by no means enhance the attractiveness of fictitious comforts to come in paradise, or the veracity of malicious…

— Jeffrey Tayler

The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is hard to…

— David F. Wells

In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent,…

— James MacDonald

“The human longing for God or the transcendent runs very deep—perhaps far too deep to be trusted, but also too deep to treat as…

— David Bentley Hart

The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have…

— Lydia M. Child

“Every church became a theatre, where orators, instead of church teachers, harangued, caring not to instruct the people, but striving to attract admiration, to…

— Christopher Hitchens

Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The tired intellectual sums up the deformities and the vices of a world adrift. He does not act, he suffers; if he favors the…

— Emil Cioran

and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of…

— Robert Musil

The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them, many Christians…

— James Davison Hunter

“I think, scathed as you look, and charred and scorched, there must be a little sense of life in you yet, rising out of…

— Charlotte Brontë

The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events that seem…

— Thomas Keating