“Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?”
-John Calvin

"In order to reach nonbelievers, you sometimes have to sit in the smoking section."
-Wayne Pederson

"I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don't give a shit. What's worse is that you're more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night."
-Tony Campolo

"The Church is a whore, but she's my mother."
-Augustine

"The church has failed to follow her appointed pathway of separation, holiness, heavenliness and testimony to an absent but coming Christ; she has turned aside from that purpose to the work of civilizing the world, building magnificent temples, and acquiring earthly power and wealth, and, in this way, has ceased to follow in the footsteps of Him who had not where to lay His head."
-C.I. Scofield

"Politics are not the task of a Christian."
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."
-G.K. Chesterton

"When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, 'Let all children come unto me.'"
-Marian Wright Edelman

"Christianity has been buried inside the walls of churches and secured with the shackles of dogmatism. Let it be liberated to come into the midst of us and teach us freedom, equality and love."
-Minna Canth