Motivational Quotes

Churches

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Churches

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

Carey, George

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Luther, Martin

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

Voltaire

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.

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

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

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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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Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?

Poster In Dayton, Ohio

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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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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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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

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Nash, L. L.

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

Smith, Sydney

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The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Forsyth, Peter T.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Thomson, James

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

Chadwick, Henry

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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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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 parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Cowper, William

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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

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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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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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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

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

Defoe, Daniel

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My own mind is my own church.

Paine, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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