Christ Quote by Oscar A. Romero

“Unfortunately, much damage has been brought to the reputation of the church by Christians who say one thing and do another. This is not…

— Eric J. Bargerhuff

“Church is a place where I can say, unashamedly, "I don't need to sin. I need another sinner.”

— Philip Yancey

“When you hear people in church, debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible…

— Bertrand Russell

“To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people.”

— Douglas Wilson

“... challenge the church to do better, be more of who Christ wants us to be ...”

— Justin Lee

“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

“Every church could put out a sign “No perfect people need apply. This is a place only for those who admit they are sinners,…

— Rick Warren

“Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly get on…

— Shane Claiborne

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

— R.C. Sproul

“You know... how it feels to sit at a bar and not be judged- to just have a drink and let it all hang…

— Jodi Picoult

“And yet the standards of Christ and His Church have not moved. As He said, 'The truth abideth forever and ever.' When we understand…

— Robert D. Hales

“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