Motivational Quotes

Churches

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

- Defoe, Daniel

Best Quotes about Churches

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

Shaw, George Bernard

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Forsyth, Peter T.

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.

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

Havner, Vance

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

Carey, George

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

My own mind is my own church.

Paine, Thomas

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

Ruskin, John

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

10.

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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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

12.

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

Chadwick, Henry

13.

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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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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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

16.

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

Allen, Fred A.

17.

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

18.

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.

19.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

21.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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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 hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Nash, L. L.

27.

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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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

29.

Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?

Poster In Dayton, Ohio

30.

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.

31.

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 Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Wesley, John

33.

The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Joyce, James

46.

Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Luther, Martin

47.

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

Voltaire

48.

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

Proverb, French

49.

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

Thomson, James