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

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

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

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Havner, Vance

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

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.

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

Joyce, James

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

Penn, William

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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The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Cowper, William

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

Smith, Sydney

12.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

13.

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

Defoe, Daniel

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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

18.

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

Proverb, French

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Thomson, 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

23.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

24.

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

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

Nash, L. L.

26.

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

27.

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Forsyth, Peter T.

28.

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

29.

Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?

Poster In Dayton, Ohio

30.

Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Luther, Martin

31.

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

34.

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

Shedd, Charlie

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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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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

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

Chadwick, Henry

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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

40.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wilder, Billy

45.

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

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

Voltaire

47.

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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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

49.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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My own mind is my own church.

Paine, Thomas