Motivational Quotes

Churches

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

Best Quotes about Churches

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

Thomson, James

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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.

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

Amis, Kingsley

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Wesley, John

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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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The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Forsyth, Peter T.

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

Defoe, Daniel

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

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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Proverb, Irish

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

Nash, L. L.

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

Thomson, James

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Wilder, Billy

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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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Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Chadwick, Henry

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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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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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Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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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The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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

Mott, John R.

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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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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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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