Motivational Quotes

Churches

The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

- Wotton, Sir Henry

Best Quotes about Churches

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

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

Mott, John R.

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

Havner, Vance

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.

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

Nash, L. L.

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

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

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

Thomson, James

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

Joyce, James

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Luther, Martin

14.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

Proverb, French

16.

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

17.

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

18.

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Wesley, John

19.

The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir Henry

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

Voltaire

22.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

23.

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

Defoe, Daniel

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

26.

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

Ruskin, John

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Chadwick, Henry

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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 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

36.

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

Huxley, Aldous

37.

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Forsyth, Peter T.

38.

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

Weil, Simone

39.

Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.

Graham, Billy

40.

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

Amis, Kingsley

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

45.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Pound, Ezra

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Cowper, William