Chaste Quote by Roger Williams

“A Christian's duty is to win souls for Christ. It would seem to me that tearing down a church you disagree with is like…

— Tom King

The most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“If it were not for the Church of Christ there would be nothing to restrain the criminal from evil-doing, no real chastisement for it…

— Anton Chekhov

The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.

— Alex Gibney

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer;…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“For the church, the many abuses of human life, liberty, and dignity are a heartfelt suffering. The church, entrusted with the earth’s glory, believes…

— Oscar A. 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

To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about God's kindness…

— J. I. Packer

“In England, under the Blasphemy Laws, it is illegal to express disbelief in the Christian religion, though in practice the law is not set…

— Bertrand Russell

“I had never before spent a night with a woman, had someone lying by my side in the quietness of the dark, hearing her…

— Iain Pears

Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the…

— Ben Hecht

“Possessing Christ and despising the church is an intolerable contradiction. We cannot have Christ without embracing the church.”

— R.C. Sproul