Church Issues Quotes

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.

I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.

The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.

There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church.

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

Most people today in our churches are lost, and they demonstrate that they are lost because their entire Christianity is nothing more than, 'They made a decision.'

Does the church have all kinds of problems? You bet, because it's made up of people like me, so I get that part too. But all I need to know about the church is that Jesus picked her.

As burned as I've been by local churches and by people who call themselves in God's name, Jesus gave us the church. It's supposed to be a community of like-minded people who encourage and strengthen each other. But that's not how it always works.

He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.

But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.

The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

We realize there is no political party or politician who fully takes into consideration the issues the church is about. This is nothing new to us.

The next time someone tells you, "The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites." You can respond, "You don't even know the half of it."

And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem.

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.

I tell priests to flee from clericalism because clericalism distances people. May they flee from clericalism and I add: it's a plague in the Church.

Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.

Theres a lot of churches that hide their dirty laundry under the rug, and I know about that from being in the church 27 years. Oh, yeah.

Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

There is a lot wrong with the church.

We live in a relativistic culture, where people are more con- cerned with being liked than being truthful. In A Sweet and Bitter Providence, John Piper does an outstanding job of bibli- cally defending key truths that the church often ignores. He gives us an example of how to take a bold and educated stand on issues of race, purity, and God's sovereignty.