Motivational Quotes

Churches

Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.

- Calvin, John

Best Quotes about Churches

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

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.

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

Penn, William

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

Ruskin, John

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

Carey, George

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.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

11.

Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?

Poster In Dayton, Ohio

12.

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

Pound, Ezra

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The greatest hindrances to the evangelization of the world are those within the church.

Mott, John R.

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

Chadwick, Henry

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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

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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.

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His creed no parson ever knew, for this was still his simple plan, to have with clergymen to do as little as a Christian can.

Doyle, Sir Francis

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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

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Fielding, Henry

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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

Shaw, George Bernard

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She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

Walker, Alice

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In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

Weil, Simone

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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

28.

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

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The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir Henry

30.

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

Proverb, French

31.

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

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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.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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My own mind is my own church.

Paine, Thomas

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The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Cowper, William

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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

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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

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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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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

Havner, Vance

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Those who marry God can become domesticated too -- it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word Love means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and Ave Marialike dearest is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves -- it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.

Greene, Graham

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

Shedd, Charlie

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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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If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.

O'Casey, Sean

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I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.

Thomson, James

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The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.

Ruskin, John

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

Amis, Kingsley

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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

49.

A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.

Selden, John

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