Catholic Quote by Pope Pius X

A church that doesn't provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a word of God that doesn't get under anyone’s skin, a word…

— Oscar Romero

“The Church pleaseth it selfe too much which scorns and disdaines other Churches, as unworthy of her Communion, for some weakness in their understanding,…

— John Davenant

“This Church is the Lord's vehicle for crucial doctrines, ordinances, covenants, and keys that are essential to exaltation, and one cannot be fully faithful…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

— John Ortberg

“If the church is to survive as a place where head and heart are equal partners in faith, then we will need to commit…

— Robin R. Meyers

To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as…

— George Trumbull Ladd

“The Church must be a place of mercy freely given, where everyone can feel welcomed, loved, forgiven, and encouraged to live the good life…

— Pope Francis

“The loss of Christendom gives us a joyous opportunity to reclaim the freedom to proclaim the gospel in a way in which we cannot…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths…

— R. C. Sproul

The church does not need apologists of its causes nor crusaders of its battles, but sowers humble and confident of the truth, who ...…

— Pope Francis

“Wherever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being 'disturbers of the peace'…

— Martin Luther King Jr

The Church is designed to nourish the imperfect, the struggling, and the exhausted.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf