Motivational Quotes

Churches

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

- Carey, George

Best Quotes about Churches

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

Chadwick, Henry

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Voltaire

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

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

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.

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

Shedd, Charlie

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

Mott, John R.

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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My own mind is my own church.

Paine, Thomas

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

Thomson, James

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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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Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Luther, Martin

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Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?

Poster In Dayton, Ohio

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The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Wesley, John

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Joyce, James

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Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Smith, Sydney

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Cowper, William

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

Nash, L. L.

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

Defoe, Daniel

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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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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

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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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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

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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 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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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

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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.