Speaking in tongues Quote by Will Self

“will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious, and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religious. Nothing…

— Mark Twain

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

“hosts in a last-ditch assault designed to finally bring about mankind’s destruction. Spirits of depression, discouragement, fear, intimidation, witchcraft, sorcery, division, malice and slander…

— Ana Mendez Ferrell

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to…

— Eliza Farnham

“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

“I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the church as an institution,…

— Eugene V. Debs

Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by the order…

— Pope Leo X

“What seems to tend to the church's ruin is often overruled to the ruin of the church's enemies, whose pride and malice are fed…

— Matthew Henry

“The bloodiest tragedies in the world have been acted on the stage of the church; and the most inhuman massacres and butcheries committed on…

— William Gurnall

“Some pinned the blame on the corruption of the Church, believing that the divine institution's fall from grace had tainted their pleas and prayers…

— Charles River Editors

“It is the especial duty of all churches, and of all believers, to search diligently into what God finds fault with, in his word,…

— John Owen

That diabolical Hell conceivedprinciple of persecution rages among some [people] and to their eternal Infamy the clergycan furnish their Quota of Imps for such…

— James Madison