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

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

Carey, George

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

Havner, Vance

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.

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

Murdoch, Iris

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

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Cowper, William

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

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

Mott, John R.

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

Shedd, Charlie

10.

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

11.

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

12.

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

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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

14.

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

Carey, George

15.

The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

Voltaire

16.

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.

17.

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.

18.

Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Luther, Martin

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

20.

A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.

Hazlitt, William

21.

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

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Joyce, James

26.

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

27.

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Forsyth, Peter T.

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

30.

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

31.

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

Penn, William

32.

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

Wilder, Billy

33.

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

Graham, Billy

34.

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.

35.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

36.

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Wesley, John

37.

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

38.

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

Chadwick, Henry

39.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

40.

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

41.

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

Thomson, James

42.

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

Weil, Simone

43.

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

Defoe, Daniel

44.

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

45.

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

46.

My own mind is my own church.

Paine, Thomas

47.

A little, round, fat, oily man of God.

Thomson, James

48.

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

50.

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