Church quotes

“Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.”
Sir Ian McKellen

“Confession cleans the sinner's soul, it doesn't help the victim. Our whole church is in need of forgiveness. Where is our humility? Sin is a wound, not a stain. It needs to be treated, healed. Forgiveness is not enough.”
Jonathan Pryce - Pope Francis

“We have spent these last years disciplining anyone who disagrees with our line on divorce, on birth control, on being gay. While our planet was being destroyed, while inequality grew like a cancer. We worried whether it was alright to speak the Mass in Latin, whether girls should be allowed to be altar servers. We built walls around us, and all...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jonathan Pryce - Pope Francis

“- Reverend Hubbard: We're gonna miss your voice in the choir, Norma.
- Norma Rae: You're gonna hear it raised up someplace else.”

Vernon Weddle - Reverend Hubbard
Sally Field - Norma Rae

“- Elderly Man: In the church, they say to forgive.
- John W. Creasy: Forgiveness is between them and God. It's my job to arrange the meeting.”
Enrique Cimet - Elderly Man
Denzel Washington - John W. Creasy

“- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: Baron told us to get the system. We need the full scope. That's the only thing that will put an end to this.
- Mike Rezendes: Then let's take it up to Ben and let him decide.
- Walter 'Robby' Robinson: We'll take it to Ben when I say it's time.
- Mike Rezendes: It's time, Robby! It's time! They knew and they let it...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Keaton - Walter 'Robby' Robinson
Mark Ruffalo - Mike Rezendes

“I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me. ”
Wes Bentley

“I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.”
Michael Patrick King

“Remember what happened to Galileo? They threw him in jail because he said the earth was not the center of the universe. That could happen to us.”
Donald Sutherland - Dr. Sid

“Pastor Jeff-For so many months, our little parish has been struggling financially. But by the grace of God and his provision, we have received the most donations in church history! PraiseJesus!
Sheldon Cooper-So it's all Jesus, we don't get any credit?
Missy Cooper-We need to start our own church.
Sheldon Cooper-They don't pay taxes. It's a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Iain Armitage - Sheldon Cooper
Matt Hobby - Pastor Jeff Hodgkins
Raegan Revord - Missy Cooper

“The Catholic Church should go to confession, not you!”
Steve Coogan - Martin Sixsmith

“Trust me, a church confessional has nothing compared to pillow talk.”
Tom Ellis - Lucifer Morningstar

“Jane Hawking-So, I take it you've never been to church?
Stephen Hawking-Once upon a time.
Jane Hawking-Tempted to convert?
Stephen Hawking-I have a slight problem with the celestial dictatorship premise.”
Eddie Redmayne - Stephen Hawking
Felicity Jones - Jane Hawking

“Jim Baxter-Something I got to know. How’s a guy with the best clearance rate in the department work fifteen years without a promotion?
Joe ‘Deke’ Deacon-Maybe I didn’t go to the right church.”
Denzel Washington - Joe 'Deke' Deacon
Rami Malek - Jim Baxter

“If the need for salvation did not exist, the church would surely find its invention necessary.”
Daniel Brühl - Laszlo Kreizler

“- Prince Don Fabrizio Salina: Do you think that if the Church could ever save herself by sacrificing us, she wouldn't do so? Of course she would, and rightly so.
- Father Pirrone: You have two sins to confess on Saturday. One of the flesh last night, one of the spirit today.”
Burt Lancaster - Prince Don Fabrizio Salina
Romolo Valli - Father Pirrone

“It's a church. You can't make water without bumping your nut on a Bible.”
Mike White - Corny

“- Pretty boy: I’m looking for the guy who runs this place.
- Joe: Well, that would be Our Father and He’s in Heaven.”

Shwayze - Pretty Boy
Brian Bosworth - Joe

“I know you're terrified... at leaving the church... so was I.”
R.H. Thomson - Linc Strunc

“- Mike Rezendes: Mitch, are you telling me that the Catholic Church removed legal documents from that courthouse?
- Mitchell Garabedian: Look, I'm not crazy, I'm not paranoid. I'm experienced. Check the docket. You'll see. They control everything.”
Mark Ruffalo - Mike Rezendes
Stanley Tucci - Mitchell Garabedian

“I'm a lapsed altar boy.”
Guillermo del Toro

“I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape.”
Ryan Murphy

“They put the building in the middle of the city, so that everyone could be equally close to God. I like that, the symmetry, the geometry of belief.”

James Spader - Ultron

“The blood of martyrs is the seed of the church.”
Andrew Garfield - Rodrigues

“- Rev. Macpherson: You want to buy my church?
- Mac MacIntyre: Not as a going concern.”
Gyearbuor Asante - Rev Macpherson
Peter Riegert - Mac