Church Critique Quotes

I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens.

... mainstream churches now spend more time preaching against apartheid and colonialism than they do against real sins like pinching secretaries and pilfering from the office coffee pool. The Southern Baptists, because they were fortunate enough to flourish in a region where the false sun of the Enlightenment never shone, succeeded in escaping this grim fate.

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.

I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are wrong, and I speak to these things. But I could be wrong.

I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.

For me Christianity is about the Kingdom, not about the Church: it has to do with human growth and development nor church growth and development.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

I'm not denouncing the church, and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It's not a church worthy of denouncing.

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'

Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion.

I have endeavored to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.

There is a lot wrong with the church.

For me this world was neither so high nor so low as the Church would have it; chequered over with its wild light shadows, I could love it and all the children of it, more dearly, perhaps, because it was not all light.

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.