Accepting Quote by Shane Claiborne

No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

— Saint Augustine

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

— Anonymous

He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father.

— Saint Augustine

A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if theyve had a competitive relationship with their own father.

— Justin Welby

A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if they've had a competitive relationship with their own father.

— Justin Welby

I didn't want to raise my daughter in the church because from what I experienced and what I saw, the church becomes everything -…

— Leah Remini

My grandmother went to church, but my mother had been inundated with church and decided that when she had children, she would not push…

— Gloria Gaynor

I was an outcast growing up with a bunch of Christian people. My father didn't go to church, and that was not good news…

— Del Shannon

In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.

— Tina Turner

Towards orthodox religion, father's own attitude remained one of tolerance. He looked upon the New Testament as the noble story of a human being…

— Margaret Sanger

I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught…

— Martin Sheen