churches

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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

- Pound, Ezra

2.

A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.

- Chadwick, Henry

3.

It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

- Havner, Vance

4.

Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.

- Graham, Billy

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We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual.

- Cheever, John

6.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

- Joyce, James

7.

And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

- Defoe, Daniel

8.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

- Amis, Kingsley

9.

The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.

- Moody, Dwight L.

10.

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

- Walt Whitman

11.

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

- Moody, Dwight L.

12.

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

- Proverb, Irish

13.

The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

- George Bernard Shaw

14.

I'll give you a simple formula for straightening out the problems of the United States. First, you tax the churches. You take the tax off of capital gains and the tax off of savings. You decriminalize all drugs and tax them same way as you do alcohol. You decriminalize prostitution. You make gambling legal. That will put the budget back on the road to recovery, and you'll have plenty of tax revenue coming in for all of your social programs, and to run the army.

- Frank Zappa

15.

Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he came to establish will always be a minority affair.

- Norman, Edward

16.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

- Thomas Paine

17.

The church exists to train its member through the practice of the presence of God to be servants of others, to the end that Christlikeness may become common property.

- Brown, William Adams

18.

A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.

- Daly, Mary

19.

He who is near the Church is often far from God.

- Proverb, French

20.

Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

- Luther, Martin