Motivational Quotes

Churches

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

- Forsyth, Peter T.

Best Quotes about Churches

Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?

Poster In Dayton, Ohio

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

Carey, George

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

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

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

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

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

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

Mott, John R.

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

Wilder, Billy

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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.

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The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Wesley, John

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

Defoe, Daniel

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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

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

Penn, William

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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 hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Nash, L. L.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Thomson, James

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Thomson, James

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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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, French

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My own mind is my own church.

Paine, Thomas

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

Chadwick, Henry

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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

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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas