Motivational Quotes

Churches

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

- Carey, George

Best Quotes about Churches

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Cowper, William

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

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

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

Wilder, Billy

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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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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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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Amis, Kingsley

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Nash, L. L.

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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 Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Wesley, John

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

Proverb, French

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

26.

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'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

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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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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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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My own mind is my own church.

Paine, Thomas

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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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The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Forsyth, Peter T.

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Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Luther, Martin

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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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chadwick, Henry

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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

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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

47.

Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?

Poster In Dayton, Ohio

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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

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

Voltaire

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

Thomson, James