Motivational Quotes

Churches

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

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about Churches

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

Wilder, Billy

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.

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

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Forsyth, Peter T.

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

Proverb, French

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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 itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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 parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Cowper, William

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Chadwick, Henry

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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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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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Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?

Poster In Dayton, Ohio

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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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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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My own mind is my own church.

Paine, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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

Thomson, James

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

Nash, L. L.

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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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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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A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.

Selden, John

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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 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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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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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Fielding, Henry

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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