What has already been said at the royal commission into child sex abuse.
"Until I began my work with the commission I did not adequately appreciate the devastation and long-lasting effect which sexual abuse, however inflicted, can have on an individual's life." - Justice Peter McClellan on opening the first public hearing.
"Unless we address this, we have no credibility." - Deputy head of Christian Brothers Oceania Julian McDonald at a Perth hearing into two residences run by the order.
"Fifty years in the church and I do not know if I can even say I am a Christian." - Pat Comben after two days of evidence on how he handled abuse survivor claims at an Anglican home in Lismore in northern NSW.
"We have historically provided a poor service for poor children. No government has ever really paid the money that it really requires to care for someone else's child." - Former Queensland senior welfare officer Janice Doyle.
"To work with kids and help them to experience life, love and friendships in an environment where there are no walls or boundaries." - Pedophile Jonathan Lord listing his ambitions in his resume for a YMCA job.
"Why in the diocese of Lismore, then across all of Australia, then the world, why not one good fearless person could have stepped out against the depravities and wrongs that existed." - What abuse survivor Jennifer Ingham wanted to ask a bishop.
"Do not compromise the bishop." - Former school principal Terry Hayes quoting the Toowoomba Catholic diocese motto when abuse claims surfaced.
"I had all my teeth forcibly removed by the dentist because they said I was a bad girl. I was 16." - Robin Kitson, 66, an Aboriginal woman, who was twice sent to Parramatta Girls Home.
"My own view is that the church in Australia should be able to be sued in cases of this kind." - Cardinal George Pell during the John Ellis case.
"You should be ashamed of yourself, Cardinal." - Abuse survivor John Hennessy when George Pell was giving evidence.
"This is the greatest failure in its history in Australia." - Counsel for the Salvation Army Kate Eastman before suggesting abuse was not widespread because the organisation only had 157 claims against it.
"To be blunt, the trustees of the Christian Brothers had their knee on our clients' throat." - Hayden Stephens, partner at Law Firm Slater & Gordon, describing litigation against the order on behalf of survivors in the mid-1990s.
"You didn't speak out against your peers, parents, anybody to do with the school - you don't say anything that could bring the school into disrepute." - Teacher at a Perth private school who observed another teacher's suspicious behaviour in 1999.
A "tsunami" of child sexual abuse allegations caught Catholic bishops and other church officials "like rabbits in a headlight". Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane Mark Coleridge on why the Towards Healing process was cobbled together.
"Trouble is, fundamentally he has high honesty and integrity levels and all of my `suggestions' about not dumping on others excessively go out the window pretty quickly." - Marist Brothers lawyer reporting back after a meeting with a brother in jail for molesting children.
"There are people in the hearing room here who find it difficult to see the (Salvation Army) uniform, and that makes me sad." - Salvation Army leader James Condon.