Billion Quote by Nancy Gibbs

The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material riches than…

— Avro Manhattan

The Catholic Church is wealthier than Coca-Cola, but takes from some of the poorest people in the world.

— Douglas Henshall

What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the…

— Gary Hamel

Church wealth are moving into everything-gas stations, banks, television stations, supermarket chains, hotels, steel mills, resort areas, farms, wine factories, warehouses, bottling works, printing…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate…

— H. G. Wells

The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently of each…

— Avro Manhattan

And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that…

— Thomas Merton

The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the…

— Andy Stanley

I don't know any institution in this country that... carries more influence than the church.

— Lee Haney

“The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church.”

— H.G. Wells

The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of…

— Jack Kerouac

The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.

— William Tyndale