Church Quote by Susan E. Isaacs

“I liked the idea of loving people just to love them, not to get them to come to church.”

— Donald Miller

“I really mean that there was no love in the church. It was a mask for hatred and self-hatred and despair.”

— James Baldwin

“But every time I go to church with you, I feel like everyone's trying to trap me in a room and convert me.' Which,…

— Nicole Hardy

“Even though my Sunday school upbringing had taught me that God loved me, inwardly I always suspected that maybe He was more interested in…

— Eric Ludy

“When you leave for seminary in a few weeks, I hope to have convinced you of how much I love you.”

— Charles Benedict

“The thought came to me that if God, as my mother said, was a vengeful God, he couldn’t be a loving God. I wasn’t…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“I played my role as the good Christian girl and spared everyone the drama of an argument. But that decision to remain silent split…

— Rachel Held Evans

“Please do not tell me that you speak to God on my behalf. If a god exists, I am a good enough man to…

— Dan Pearce

“You know, Pastor, how we always say God won’t give us more than we can handle?” “Yes, Lydie.” She sighed. “I wish God didn’t…

— Robyn Carr

“He heard you in the chapel and gave you more time to make things better. Time to say what you needed to say, do…

— John Goode

“I don’t have to agree with everything that is being said and done at church in order to be at church, just as I…

— Mandy Steward

“Oh!  I will give my heart to God,” I said.  “You do not want it.”

— Charlotte Brontë