Motivational Quotes

Churches

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

Best Quotes about Churches

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

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

Atkinson, Brooks

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Smith, Sydney

Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Luther, Martin

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

10.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Cowper, William

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

Penn, William

15.

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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Murdoch, Iris

17.

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Forsyth, Peter T.

18.

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

Thomson, James

19.

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Wesley, John

20.

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

Chadwick, Henry

21.

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

22.

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

Havner, Vance

23.

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

24.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

25.

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

Mott, John R.

26.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir Henry

32.

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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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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Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?

Poster In Dayton, Ohio

35.

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

Fielding, Henry

36.

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

Nash, L. L.

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

Shedd, Charlie

39.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

40.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Joyce, James

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

Weil, Simone

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