Spiritual Exclusion Quotes

Allah does not hear the prayer of disbelievers.

There is no salvation for those outside the Church.

The only institution like the United States Navy is the Roman Catholic Church. You write something bad about them and they excommunicate you.

The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.' 'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.

Hymns have always sounded like sung spells to me. I never felt included in the magic of the God songs I heard growing up - I knew I was going to hell before anyone ever told me that I was. People found comfort in this all-knowing source, but I felt frightened and found out. I developed some weird and very dramatic complexes.

At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.

If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

I never felt part of the Christian industry.

Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.