Motivational Quotes

Churches

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

Best Quotes about Churches

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

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

Wilder, Billy

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

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

Nash, L. L.

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

Weil, Simone

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?

Poster In Dayton, Ohio

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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

11.

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

Carey, George

12.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Smith, Sydney

16.

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

17.

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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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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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 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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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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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?

23.

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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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

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

Havner, Vance

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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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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

29.

His creed no parson ever knew, for this was still his simple plan, to have with clergymen to do as little as a Christian can.

Doyle, Sir Francis

30.

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Wesley, John

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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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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

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Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 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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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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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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The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Forsyth, Peter T.

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

Voltaire

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Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

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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

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

Chadwick, Henry

44.

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

Proverb, French

46.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

47.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Cowper, William

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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

49.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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.