Motivational Quotes

Churches

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Churches

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

Amis, Kingsley

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Weil, Simone

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Pound, Ezra

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

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

Shedd, Charlie

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

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

Joyce, James

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

10.

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

11.

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

12.

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.

13.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

14.

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

15.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

16.

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

17.

The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir Henry

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

20.

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

21.

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

Graham, Billy

22.

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

23.

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

Allen, Fred A.

24.

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

Nash, L. L.

25.

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 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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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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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

29.

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

Wilder, Billy

30.

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.

31.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Cowper, William

32.

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

Chadwick, Henry

33.

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

34.

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

Smith, Sydney

35.

Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?

Poster In Dayton, Ohio

36.

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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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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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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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

40.

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

Carey, George

41.

The greatest hindrances to the evangelization of the world are those within the church.

Mott, John R.

42.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

43.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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

46.

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

47.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

48.

Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.

Calvin, John

49.

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 local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Forsyth, Peter T.