Motivational Quotes

Churches

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

- Thomson, James

Best Quotes about Churches

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

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

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

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

Allen, Fred A.

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Wesley, John

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.

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

Shedd, Charlie

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

Defoe, Daniel

10.

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

Mencken, H. L.

11.

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

Carey, George

12.

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

Havner, Vance

13.

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

Nash, L. L.

14.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

16.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

17.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

18.

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

Penn, William

19.

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

Carey, George

20.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

21.

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

Fielding, Henry

22.

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

Weil, Simone

24.

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

Thomson, James

25.

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

26.

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

27.

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Forsyth, Peter T.

28.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

29.

The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir Henry

30.

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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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

32.

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

33.

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

Thomson, James

34.

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?

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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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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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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 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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The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Cowper, William

40.

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

Wilder, Billy

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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

42.

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

Proverb, French

43.

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

44.

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

Voltaire

45.

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

Graham, Billy

48.

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

49.

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

50.

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