Because Quote by Peter Jurasik

And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though I could…

— Thomas Keneally

I left the Church of England because there was a huge bundle of straw. The ordination of women was the last straw, but it…

— Ann Widdecombe

I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the…

— Julianna Baggott

I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and…

— Julianna Baggott

When I found out the heads of the Church were up to things that were not good. I left. I say, you know I…

— Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Most people spend their life trying to get away from Catholicism. Amazingly, I chose it.

— Stephen Hough

I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.

— Anne Rice

I wanted passionately to be a priest.

— A. N. Wilson

The decision to leave [the church] is you're giving up everything you've worked for your whole life. I feel that people need to understand…

— Leah Remini

I completely understand why people would find the Church intolerable. I'm not the least bit surprised when people seek to leave it, though I…

— Richard Coles

I left the convent and that was because I wasn't a very good nun. I could see that I wasn't going to make it.…

— Karen Armstrong

I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

— Barbara Brown Taylor