Alas Quote by Daniel Defoe

“A woman has never been able to become a priest—she cannot even be a deacon, nor yet a chorister—but a woman can with the…

— Sigrid Undset

“One of the good things about a Catholic church is that it isn't respectable," she had told Richard. "You can find anyone in it,…

— Rumer Godden

“Alice knows those stories. The routiers and condottieri of the Free Companies, who fight the wars of whichever prince will pay their fees, and…

— Vanora Bennett

It would be a godsend if the Church would suffer persecution today; she hasn't suffered it for hundreds of years. She is growing rich…

— Billy Sunday

The Church in England is the Church of England.

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

— Hilaire Belloc

“Blessed also be the Lord, the one living head of the church, who preserves her so effectually in unity that, even now, while there…

— Jan Hus

“Excessive wealth, enormous power, and luxury, Chrysostom charges, are destroying the integrity of the churches. Clerics, infected by the disease of “lust for authority,”…

— Elaine Pagels

“I at this writing am an old man, only three years short of my three score and ten. And they tell me that Wycliffe’s…

— Andy Thomson

“To be brief, Miss Vaughan has adopted, body and soul, precisely those abuses which Catholics of intelligence earnestly desire to see expunged from their…

— Arthur Edward Waite

Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

— Honore de Balzac