Motivational Quotes

Churches

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

- Chadwick, Henry

Best Quotes about Churches

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.

Graham, Billy

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

Ruskin, John

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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.

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Weil, Simone

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

Allen, Fred A.

17.

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

Wilder, Billy

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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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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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My own mind is my own church.

Paine, Thomas

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

Atkinson, Brooks

22.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Cowper, William

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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 little, round, fat, oily man of God.

Thomson, James

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

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

Voltaire

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

Joyce, James

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

Fuller, 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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Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

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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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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

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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.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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