Blame Quote by Charles River Editors

“It is the especial duty of all churches, and of all believers, to search diligently into what God finds fault with, in his word,…

— John Owen

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

— Gilbert Mylender

“We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despise the spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor…

— Victor Hugo

“However, before long, you find it has always happened that the low tide returns. The ocean of grace seemed to recede; the Church was…

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“What seems to tend to the church's ruin is often overruled to the ruin of the church's enemies, whose pride and malice are fed…

— Matthew Henry

“Lament challenges the church to acknowledge real suffering and plead with God for his intervention. The”

— Soong-Chan Rah

“On all levels and in every aspect of our society, the poor are rejected, mistreated, and forced more deeply into their poverty. Christianity should…

— Frank Schaeffer

“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

“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

“In religious affairs, history shows us that churches have their palmy days, and then again their times of drought. The Universal Church has been…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

“What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.”

— Peter Rollins