Accepted Quote by J. I. Packer

“The nice people do not come to God, because they think they are good through their own merits or bad through inherited instincts. If…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“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

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and…

— Pope Francis

The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty…

— Bertrand Russell

“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

“There are a great many ways in which, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon all sorts…

— Bertrand Russell

In many ways, the church seems to hate evil more than it loves good or even God.

— Carlton Pearson

Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most…

— Criss Jami

“Amid an array of moral convictions, the indistinguishable character of the church undermines its claims of a superior—indeed ontologically true—moral vision. On the broad…

— Mark Labberton

“The Church pleaseth it selfe too much which scorns and disdaines other Churches, as unworthy of her Communion, for some weakness in their understanding,…

— John Davenant

“The Church still prizes the Moral Sense as man's noblest asset today, although the Church knows God had a distinctly poor opinion of it…

— Mark Twain

“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