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He who is near the Church is often far from God.
- Proverb, French
Churches Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Churches

1.
Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.
Luther, Martin

2.
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.

3.
The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.
Shedd, Charlie

4.
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

5.
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

6.
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

7.
I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
Atkinson, Brooks

8.
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

9.
Though the church has many critics, it has no rivals.

10.
Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
Proverb, Irish

11.
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?

12.
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

13.
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

14.
I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.
Carey, George

15.
I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Smith, Sydney

16.
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

17.
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.

18.
The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.
Wotton, Sir Henry

19.
This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
Johnson, Samuel

20.
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Beecher, Henry Ward

21.
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
Penn, William

22.
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

23.
We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
Shaw, George Bernard

24.
Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
Mencken, H. L.

25.
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

26.
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
Pound, Ezra

27.
A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.
Chadwick, Henry

28.
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Fielding, Henry

29.
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave--with both ends kicked out.
Havner, Vance

30.
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.

31.
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

32.
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

33.
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

34.
The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.
Voltaire

35.
I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
Wilder, Billy

36.
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
Joyce, James

37.
The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.
Ruskin, John

38.
Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
Gaulle, Charles De

39.
The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
Ingersoll, Robert Green

40.
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

41.
My own mind is my own church.
Paine, Thomas

42.
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
Amis, Kingsley

43.
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.

44.
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
Cowper, William

45.
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.

46.
The greatest hindrances to the evangelization of the world are those within the church.
Mott, John R.

47.
The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.
Forsyth, Peter T.

48.
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

49.
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

50.
He who is near the Church is often far from God.
Proverb, French


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