Motivational Quotes

Churches

Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Churches

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.

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Forsyth, Peter T.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Wilder, Billy

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.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Weil, Simone

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.

John Paul II

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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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.

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

Voltaire

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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

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Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Joyce, James

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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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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?

41.

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Wesley, John

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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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Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Luther, Martin

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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

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Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?

Poster In Dayton, Ohio

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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

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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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My own mind is my own church.

Paine, Thomas

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

Thomson, James