Motivational Quotes

Churches

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

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Churches

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Graham, Billy

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?

Poster In Dayton, Ohio

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Voltaire

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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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

12.

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

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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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A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.

Daly, Mary

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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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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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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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Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Luther, Martin

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

Defoe, Daniel

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The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir Henry

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Nash, L. L.

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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 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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Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Weil, Simone

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

My own mind is my own church.

Paine, Thomas

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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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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

41.

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

Penn, William

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

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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Carey, George