Motivational Quotes

Churches

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

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Best Quotes about Churches

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

Shedd, Charlie

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Thomson, James

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

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Forsyth, Peter T.

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The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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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My own mind is my own church.

Paine, Thomas

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

Amis, Kingsley

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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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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Chadwick, Henry

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

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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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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Luther, Martin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Nash, L. L.

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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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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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Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Wilder, Billy

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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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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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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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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

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

Joyce, James

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But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compass, not a weathercock.