Motivational Quotes

Churches

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Churches

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

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

Thomson, James

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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

Mott, John R.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Joyce, James

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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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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My own mind is my own church.

Paine, Thomas

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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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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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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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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Wilder, Billy

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Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Luther, Martin

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

Chadwick, Henry

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

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir 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

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The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Forsyth, Peter T.

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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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Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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

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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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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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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 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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Defoe, Daniel