Church Quote by William Laud

“After all, the Church had murdered itself, as with every decade more and more depressed dubiousness crept into its synods and convocations, until speaking…

— Will Self

Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume.…

— Orson Scott Card

“They were buffoons with barricaded eyes, their shoulders held in positions of immovable defense. Each position upon the great floor could be seen as…

— Frank Herbert

“To-day the majority of the great men who have swayed men's minds no longer have altars, but they have statues, or their portraits are…

— Gustave Le Bon

“They are hypocrites, they think the church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and no go…

— Margaret Atwood

They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go…

— Margaret Atwood

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

— Cyprian

“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

We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.

— R. C. Sproul

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

— Alex Gibney