Satirical-humor Quote by Mark Twain

“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

“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

“I cannot think why we should be astonished at all the evils which exist in the Church, when those who ought to be models…

— Santa Teresa de Jesús

“The Church was not left in this world to perfume the dung-heap of fallen humanity, but to take out, one by one, those who…

— Anonymous

“When we ask people what they want in church instead of giving them what they were created to long for, we play in the…

— James MacDonald

“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

“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

“the church has unhesitatingly privileged the creed and let the canon fend for itself—”

— N.T. Wright

“He will glory against the church, and say, ‘These are your holy preachers: you see what their preciseness is, and whither it will bring…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

“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

“The church the Bible described is exciting and adventurous and wrought with sacrifice. It cost believers everything, and they still came.”

— Jen Hatmaker

“and at that point the church quietly articulated these words, which tell us something of the secret of old buildings: 'The worse I am…

— Julien Green