Motivational Quotes

Churches

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

- Cowper, William

Best Quotes about Churches

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carey, George

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

Havner, Vance

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

Voltaire

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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.

I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us would love to call us priestesses. They can call us all the names in the world -- it's better than being invisible.

Heyward, Carter

10.

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

Shedd, Charlie

11.

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

Mott, John R.

12.

My own mind is my own church.

Paine, Thomas

13.

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

Ruskin, John

14.

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

Thomson, James

15.

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

16.

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

Chadwick, Henry

17.

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

18.

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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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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Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor, and we will give you work.

O'Casey, Sean

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

Weil, Simone

22.

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

Allen, Fred A.

23.

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

24.

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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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

26.

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Wesley, John

27.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

28.

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.

29.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

Paine, Thomas

30.

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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A group touring Westminster Abbey in London heard the guide list the famous people buried within its walls. During a momentary silence a little old lady's voice blurted out loud and clear, Anybody been saved here lately?

32.

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Forsyth, Peter T.

33.

The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir Henry

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, French

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

Defoe, Daniel

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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.

39.

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

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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

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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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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

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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The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Cowper, William

47.

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

Thomson, James

48.

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

Carey, George