Motivational Quotes

Churches

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Churches

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

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Gaulle, Charles De

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Forsyth, Peter T.

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

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Weil, Simone

14.

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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Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

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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 little, round, fat, oily man of God.

Thomson, James

18.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

19.

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

20.

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

Thomson, James

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

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?

Poster In Dayton, Ohio

25.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Cowper, William

26.

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

Chadwick, Henry

27.

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

Allen, Fred A.

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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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I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

Carey, George

30.

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Wesley, John

31.

My own mind is my own church.

Paine, Thomas

32.

Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Luther, Martin

33.

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.

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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

35.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

37.

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

Voltaire

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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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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 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

41.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

43.

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

Mencken, H. L.

49.

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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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