Church Quote by Maria Monk

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what…

— Bede Griffiths

You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by…

— William Laud

“What you must realize, what you must even come to praise, is the fact that there is no right way that is going to…

— Christian Wiman

With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on the evidence…

— Sean Brady

I found myself in a maze where I'd taken the wrong turn. In my wish to do well for that congregation I wasn't doing…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

It became easy for me to detach myself from the course of life, so that while my hands and mind were engaged in the…

— John G. Lake

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

— Octavia Butler

Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my…

— Martin Luther

The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and sacrifice and…

— Annie Besant

Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God…

— Karen Armstrong

My conscience is captive to the Word of God

— Martin Luther