Church Quote by Richard Rohr

“Although churches seem the most natural space to perform spiritual awakening, the disconcerting reality is that many people in Western society see churches more…

— Diana Butler Bass

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration…

— Arthur Middleton

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

— Robert Genn

I don't know any institution in this country that... carries more influence than the church.

— Lee Haney

The fact that institutional churches have gone into decline doesn't mean that we're going to enter some purely secular age. Secular people need to…

— Ross Douthat

“Without the persistent rising up of individuals that seek the Lord and place themselves under His direct leadership, churches will inevitably...slip into human hierarchy,…

— Henry Hon

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not…

— Andrew Greeley

I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me.

— Wes Bentley

It is a very rare church indeed that encourages its members to think for themselves in religious matters, or even tolerates this, and in…

— Anne Roe

The more administrative machinery we construct, be it the most modern, the less place there is for the Spirit, the less place there is…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“...the institutional church, which exists to serve the people of God, is never to be confused with the church as mystery - the Christ-centered,…

— Brennan Manning

The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.

— William Tyndale