Church Quote by Brennan Manning

“Church is a place where I can say, unashamedly, "I don't need to sin. I need another sinner.”

— Philip Yancey

The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners.

— Timothy Keller

The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.

— Leonard Ravenhill

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The difference between us and the one being disciplined by the church is not that we're not all sinners...but that we repent of our…

— John Folmar

The results of ignoring church discipline are catastrophic. Gross public sin is overlooked, ignored, and tolerated. The fellowship of believers deteriorates to the point…

— John Macarthur

When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the…

— Charles Grandison Finney

There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that,…

— Tony Benn

“If the church remains self-righteously aloof from failures, irreligious and immoral people, it cannot enter justified into God’s kingdom. But if it is constantly…

— Brennan Manning

Sin we have explain'd away; Unluckily, the sinners stay.

— William Allingham