Atheism Quote by James Madison

The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“the ministries of the Church are regarded by the masses merely as dignities, her offices as posts of emolument—in short, popular religion may be…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The great curse of theology and ecclesiasticisim has always been their tendency to sacrifice large interests to small: Charity to Creed, Unity to Uniformity,…

— Andrew Dickson White

“Thus the Eucharist, like the meals held by Jesus with ‘sinners and publicans’, must also be celebrated with the unrighteous, those who have no…

— Jurgen Moltmann

Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care spent on…

— Peter Forsyth

The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

— John Stott

“What I am getting at here is that this religious institution we call church has become a simulacrum that rarely mirrors the ecclesia.”

— C Andrew Doyle

Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday…

— Wilkie Collins

The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not Churches in…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The great tasks facing the ecclesial community in the modern world - and among the many I particularly stress evangelization and ecumenism - are…

— Pope Benedict XVI