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

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.

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 difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.

Moody, Dwight L.

The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir Henry

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Cowper, William

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

Penn, William

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Smith, Sydney

10.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

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

Nash, L. L.

13.

Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?

Poster In Dayton, Ohio

14.

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

Weil, Simone

15.

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

16.

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

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.

18.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

21.

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Wesley, John

22.

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

Mencken, H. L.

23.

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

Proverb, French

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Luther, Martin

27.

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

Moody, Dwight L.

28.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

29.

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

Thomson, James

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Fielding, Henry

33.

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

34.

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?

35.

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

Defoe, Daniel

36.

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

37.

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

38.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor, and we will give you work.

O'Casey, Sean

45.

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

Carey, George

46.

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

47.

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

Thomson, James

48.

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

49.

It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

Austen, Jane

50.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Amis, Kingsley