Accepting Quote by Ricardo Sanchez

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

— E. Stanley Jones

Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.

— Philip Yancey

Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of…

— Pope Francis

Until we take seriously God's definition of the church and stop just 'having church,' we will not see transformation in our society.

— Tony Evans

When a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards, and perhaps…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members,…

— C. S. Lewis

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and…

— Martin Luther

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

— John Shelby Spong

“Ironically, (the church's) respect in the world declines in proportion to how vigorously we attempt to force others to adopt our point of view.”

— Philip Yancey

The church can challenge society, but society also challenges the church. That's good. We should be humble enough to be able to accept that.

— Blase J. Cupich

I was never forced to go to church, and there is a lot of beauty in Christianity that I take in my life as…

— Emily Saliers

I think what we're really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.

— Alan Green