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Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
- Ruskin, John
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Best Quotes about Churches

1.
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.

2.
The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.
Forsyth, Peter T.

3.
My own mind is my own church.
Paine, Thomas

4.
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

5.
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?

6.
Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.
Luther, Martin

7.
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.

8.
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

9.
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

10.
I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Smith, Sydney

11.
The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.
Shedd, Charlie

12.
The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.
Wesley, John

13.
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Beecher, Henry Ward

14.
The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.
Voltaire

15.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Carlyle, Thomas

16.
I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
Wilder, Billy

17.
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.

18.
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
Weil, Simone

19.
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
Ruskin, John

20.
Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?
Poster In Dayton, Ohio

21.
Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
Melbourne, Lord

22.
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
Joyce, James

23.
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

24.
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

25.
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

26.
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

27.
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

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

30.
I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
Atkinson, Brooks

31.
The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.
Wotton, Sir Henry

32.
A little, round, fat, oily man of God.
Thomson, James

33.
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Fielding, Henry

34.
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
Pound, Ezra

35.
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

36.
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

37.
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

38.
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
Penn, William

39.
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
Nash, L. L.

40.
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.

41.
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

42.
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
Allen, Fred A.

43.
The greatest hindrances to the evangelization of the world are those within the church.
Mott, John R.

44.
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

45.
Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
Proverb, Irish

46.
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

47.
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
Amis, Kingsley

48.
Though the church has many critics, it has no rivals.

49.
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

50.
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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