Motivational Quotes

Churches

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

- Atkinson, Brooks

Best Quotes about Churches

Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

Mencken, H. L.

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

Allen, Fred A.

But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compass, not a weathercock.

Huxley, Aldous

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

Carey, George

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

Austen, Jane

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

Amis, Kingsley

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

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

Chadwick, Henry

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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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

Joyce, James

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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Fielding, Henry

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How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after service.

Smith, Sydney

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The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world, membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.

Morrison, Charles C.

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I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

Wilder, Billy

18.

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Wesley, John

19.

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Nash, L. L.

21.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave--with both ends kicked out.

Havner, Vance

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I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

Atkinson, Brooks

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The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.

John Paul II

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Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Gaulle, Charles De

25.

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

Fuller, Thomas

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The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

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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

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The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

Shedd, Charlie

30.

What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.

Hawkins, O. S.

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

Defoe, Daniel

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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

Ratzinger, Cardinal Joseph

33.

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Forsyth, Peter T.

34.

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

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The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.

Spong, John

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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

Swift, Jonathan

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Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

Pound, Ezra

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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

Carey, George

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The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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.

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Though the church has many critics, it has no rivals.

44.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

Tozer, A. W.

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It's about time we quit playing church in these services that start at eleven o clock sharp and end at twelve o clock dull.

Havner, Vance

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The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

Brown, Robert Mcafee

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Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

Ruskin, John

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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.