Motivational Quotes

Churches

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

Best Quotes about Churches

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

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

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

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

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

Amis, Kingsley

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

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

Havner, Vance

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

Thomson, James

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Proverb, French

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

Nash, L. L.

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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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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Penn, William

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

Wilder, Billy

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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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O'Casey, Sean

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

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Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Luther, Martin

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

Thomson, James

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

Defoe, Daniel

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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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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?

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

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Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?