“If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scan...” — Gerald Vann Quote

“If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.”

“To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.”

“Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.”

“Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.”

“Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.”

“Really, at a time when they're debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church.”

“As soon as I could write with a little pencil, I was writing these little hymns and illustrating them, and I thought they should be sung in church, but they never were.”

“My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.”

“The outcome can truly determine whether our homes will be destroyed, whether our children will be torn from their mothers, trained as conspirators and turned against their parents, their home and their church.”

“The Church in England is the Church of England.”