Attitude Quote by Harry Dean Stanton

I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right thing, they…

— Anna Quindlen

I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up…

— Richard Gere

Growing up, I always saw the hypocrisy of the Catholic church. The history speaks for itself, and I grew incredibly frustrated and angry. I…

— Hozier

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

My beloved church misunderstood me. It preached the corruptibility of humanity when I came to demonstrate its potential for incorruptibility. It propounded the sinfulness…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual…

— Alan Hirsch

I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,... but at the same time, I felt that it did not set its…

— Dorothy Day

The Church has failed to be a positive influence for good in our nation and our world.

— Tony Evans

The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees.

— Mike Yaconelli

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and…

— Martin Luther

For years, I just did not like this idea of God, church.

— Tim Allen