“The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.” ChristianNamesChurchCommonChristianityProgressViolenceHumilityOppositesChristian LifeArroganceHostileRigidityChristian ChurchUsurpationPenitence Author:Leo Tolstoy
“One of the most disruptive forces in the Church is arrogance. It is natural for people to bring their pride to Church, and try to prove their own greatness to others. This is an urge we need to constantly be fighting” PeopleNeedsTryingFightingForceNaturalChurchGreatnessPrideProveArroganceUrgesDisruptive Author:Dan Schilling
“My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination of the leadership to protect the institution, rather than the children.” ChildrenSufferingHurtChurchProtectInstitutionsIndifferenceArroganceInclination Author:Mark Shields
“But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.” PeopleChurchPositionMetsEnglandExtraordinaryArroganceSignificancePresumptuousSmugnessChurch Of England Author:Rowan Atkinson