Church Quote by Brian D. McLaren

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by…

— Mark Twain

“The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by…

— Mark Twain

“The Church does not depend on power, social prestige, rhetorical manipulation, or human-designed programs. All it has are the Word and Sacraments, which, though…

— Gene Edward Veith Jr

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things:…

— Anonymous

What's really neat about the Orthodox church is that it's like walking back in time 2,000 years to the time of the Apostles, when…

— Troy Polamalu

Power corrupts. If the Church is given too much power, it will become corrupted. So to keep the Church in line with the teachings…

— Ali Sina

Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The church becomes irrelevant when it becomes purely a human creation. We are not all we were made to be when everything in our…

— Francis Chan

The Church is always in trouble because the Church walks into the trouble in which mankind is trying to resolve itself. There are a…

— Dolores Hart

The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.

— Pope Pius X

The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing board to…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

There are financial bankruptcies in many parts of the church. No question about that. But we see the possibility of reimagining and revitalizing the…

— Shane Claiborne