Arise Quote by Oscar Romero

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me,…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“The Church is in the world, it is part of the suffering in the world, and though Christ condemned the disciple who struck off…

— Graham Greene

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the…

— Hall Caine

“For the church, the many abuses of human life, liberty, and dignity are a heartfelt suffering. The church, entrusted with the earth’s glory, believes…

— Oscar A. Romero

The church can challenge society, but society also challenges the church. That's good. We should be humble enough to be able to accept that.

— Blase J. Cupich

“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

“Our church, which has been fighting in these years only for its self-preservation, as though that were an end in itself, is incapable of…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination of the…

— Mark Shields

Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“The crying out to God in lament over a broken history is often set aside in favor of a triumphalistic narrative. We are too…

— Soong-Chan Rah

Where no sorrow is expressed., no suffering will be challenged

— Alexander Fennis