Church Quote by Jacques Maritain

“The Church will endure until the end of time. We have the Word of God on that. But how and where she survives is…

— Charles J. Chaput

The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's will and…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

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 is ever in peril-and never more so than now-of the disaster which must follow when she allows men of distinction in the…

— Lewis Sperry Chafer

The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church…

— Thomas Aquinas

One should not seek among others the truth that can be easily gotten from the Church. For in her, as in a rich treasury,…

— Irenaeus of Lyons

We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive…

— Thomas Paine

“If all the world spoke, acted, or kept silence with intent to deceive, --if dearest interests were at stake, and dearest lives in peril,…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

— Hilaire Belloc

If the church is to impress the world with the deathless hope of the everlasting Gospel, she must be animated by that hope herself.

— Frank W. Boreham

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

— G. Campbell Morgan