Believer Quote by Pope Francis

I tell priests to flee from clericalism because clericalism distances people. May they flee from clericalism and I add: it's a plague in the…

— Pope Francis

Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it’s meant to be an encounter with a person.

— Mike Donehey

I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I'd heard when I was growing up were simply made up - and I realized…

— Elaine Pagels

Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because…

— Bono

I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed it, too.…

— John Kennedy Toole

I became a Christian when I was 19, and it wasn't like I was raised with the church.

— Sonny Sandoval

I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.

— D. B. Sweeney

The daughter of an ordained minister, I had been forced to go to church since I was a toddler. I hated church and resented…

— Lionel Shriver

Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.

— Giulio Andreotti

I'm sort of agnostic. I grew up Catholic and switched to Episcopalian in college because I sang in churches to have money to buy…

— Robert Lopez

Our tendency is to be converted to church and not to Christ.

— Max Lucado

I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church…

— Paul Kantner