Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Churches

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Havner, Vance

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.

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

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

Thomson, James

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?

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 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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The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Wesley, John

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Chadwick, Henry

14.

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

Voltaire

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?

Poster In Dayton, Ohio

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

Nash, L. L.

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

Thomson, James

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

Weil, Simone

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Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Luther, Martin

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

Shedd, Charlie

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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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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 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

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The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Cowper, William

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

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My own mind is my own church.

Paine, Thomas

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Those who marry God can become domesticated too -- it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word Love means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and Ave Marialike dearest is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves -- it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.

Greene, Graham

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

Mott, John R.

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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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The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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

49.

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 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