Quote by Mark Twain

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

— Gabriel Chevallier

“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

“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

“The Church still prizes the Moral Sense as man's noblest asset today, although the Church knows God had a distinctly poor opinion of it…

— Mark Twain

“The Church risks irrelevance when it makes central God's preference for the poor and not His universal favor toward the poor in spirit.”

— Gilbert Mylender

“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

“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

“The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.”

— Salman Rushdie

“I have a problem with a church that has its main mission aimed at preferential treatment of rich, attractive, influential, and gifted people. Instead,…

— Scott S. Haraburda