Christian Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm trying to make the case that the church can indeed, from within its own resources, move out of a false, and often a…

— James Alison

“Indeed, most mainline churches in the Reformed and Presbyterian tradition today either ignore or reject their Calvinistic distinctives.”

— Michael S. Horton

“Churches that are filled with self-righteous, exclusive, insecure, angry, moralistic people are extremely unattractive. Their public pronouncements are often highly judgmental, while internally such…

— Timothy Keller

I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and that of…

— Andrew Solomon

The next time someone tells you, "The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites." You can respond, "You don't even know the half…

— Kevin DeYoung

“It is the distinctive position of the Reformation with which, over against Rome, it stands or falls, that that which properly constitutes, defines, and…

— Charles Porterfield Krauth

There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“It’s out of liberal-hearted love and compassion for people that the Church has always been so hardheadedly conservative about doctrine.”

— Peter Kreeft

I think the church has to apologize not only to the gay person it has offended, but also to the poor, to women who…

— Pope Francis

“The Church is full of Hypocrites!" Yes, it is, and thank God for that, it means the church is doing its job. The church…

— Lee Goff

I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage.

— Roger Williams

What we have seen in recent years in the United States is the church's rights to express itself, and to conduct its own affairs,…

— Bruce L. Shelley