Motivational Quotes

Churches

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

- Amis, Kingsley

Best Quotes about Churches

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?

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

My own mind is my own church.

Paine, Thomas

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

Mott, John R.

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Nash, L. L.

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

Atkinson, Brooks

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

Voltaire

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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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

11.

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

Allen, Fred A.

12.

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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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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The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Forsyth, Peter T.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?

Poster In Dayton, Ohio

20.

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

Joyce, James

21.

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

22.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

24.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

27.

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.

28.

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

Thomson, James

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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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The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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

32.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Weil, Simone

34.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Cowper, William

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Wesley, John

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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

38.

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

40.

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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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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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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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

Penn, William

44.

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

45.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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

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

Defoe, Daniel

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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