Adultery Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The bloodiest tragedies in the world have been acted on the stage of the church; and the most inhuman massacres and butcheries committed on…

— William Gurnall

“will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious, and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religious. Nothing…

— Mark Twain

“After all, the Church had murdered itself, as with every decade more and more depressed dubiousness crept into its synods and convocations, until speaking…

— Will Self

Music was brought up in the church.

— Sister Rosetta Tharpe

That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the…

— William Faulkner

The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.

— Pope John Paul II

Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.

— Edward Abbey

“They sounded like intestines, only on the outside, and the men in the Bible were always having them cut off and not being able…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I have seen whole churches destroyed, because they did not know how to be in a state of alert; there were no watchmen on…

— Ana Mendez Ferrell

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

— Teresa of Avila

“[I]t seemed to me now that a Catholic church was the right companion for all these horrors. Didn't Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“churches have unconsciously encouraged the development of fear by using it as a weapon to whip people into church attendance, the performance of church…

— Orison Swett Marden