Motivational Quotes

Churches

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

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Churches

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.

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

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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir Henry

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

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

Carey, George

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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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.

11.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.

Daly, Mary

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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?

Poster In Dayton, Ohio

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Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

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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

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Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Luther, Martin

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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 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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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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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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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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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

34.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

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The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Wesley, John

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

Allen, Fred A.

39.

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Proverb, French

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The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Forsyth, Peter T.

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

Chadwick, Henry

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Weil, Simone