Church Quote by John Davenant

“I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous.…

— Mark Twain

“The Church needs a firm hierarchy and is forced to distrust such of her underlings as show a tendency to become too holy.”

— Gabriel Chevallier

“will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious, and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religious. Nothing…

— Mark Twain

“In a society in which idolatry runs rampant, a church that is not iconoclastic is a travesty. If it is not against the idols…

— Herbert Schlossberg

“Possessing Christ and despising the church is an intolerable contradiction. We cannot have Christ without embracing the church.”

— R.C. Sproul

“We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despise the spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor…

— Victor Hugo

“I really mean that there was no love in the church. It was a mask for hatred and self-hatred and despair.”

— James Baldwin

“But the church, like a tender, loving mother holds aloof from active punishment herself, as the sinner is too severely punished already by the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It is so very sad to find a worldly Christian who is sure—according to him or her—of that security that the faith gives and…

— Pope Francis

“The work of the church is not survival. She exists to fulfill the Great Commission.”

— Brother Andrew

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