Motivational Quotes

Churches

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

- Graham, Billy

Best Quotes about Churches

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

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

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

Nash, L. L.

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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

Chadwick, Henry

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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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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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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

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Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

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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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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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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Mott, John R.

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

Thomson, James

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

Thomson, James

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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Wilder, Billy

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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

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

Voltaire

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The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Cowper, William

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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

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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 itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Joyce, James

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

Penn, William

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

Carey, George

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Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Luther, Martin

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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 question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.

John Paul II

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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