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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.

H. L. Mencken

Christian Church
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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.

William Hazlitt

Christian Church
3

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.

John Selden

Christian Church
4

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?

Christian Church
5

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

H. L. Mencken

Christian Church
7

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Christian Church
8

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

Aldous Huxley

Christian Church
9

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

Dwight L. Moody

Christian Church
10

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

Charles de Gaulle

Christian Church
11

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

Billy Graham

Christian Church
12

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

Christian Church
13

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.

Seán O'Casey

Christian Church
14

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after service.

Sydney Smith

Christian Church
15

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.

Thomas Paine

Christian Church
16

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

Sydney Smith

Christian Church
17

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.

Jonathan Swift

Christian Church
18

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Christian Church
19

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.

Seán O'Casey

Christian Church
20

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

Simone Weil

Christian Church
21

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.

Jane Austen

Christian Church
22

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.

Vance Havner

Christian Church
23

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Jane Austen

Christian Church
24

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

William Penn

Christian Church
25

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.

Vance Havner

Christian Church
26

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

Thomas Fuller M.D.

Christian Church
27

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

Vance Havner

Christian Church
28

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.

Ezra Pound

Christian Church
29

My own mind is my own church.

Thomas Paine

Christian Church
30

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

John Ruskin

Christian Church
31

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

Christian Church
32

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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christian Church
33

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.

Alice Walker

Christian Church
34

Sign in lot: Church parking only. We will not forgive those who trespass against us.

Christian Church
35

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

Ezra Pound

Christian Church
36

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

John Wesley

Christian Church
37

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

Robert G. Ingersoll

Christian Church
38

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Christian Church
39

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

Vance Havner

Christian Church
40

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.

Dwight L. Moody

Christian Church
41

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

Fred Allen

Christian Church
42

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

Thomas Carlyle

Christian Church
43

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

William Cowper

Christian Church
44

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

Voltaire

Christian Church
45

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.

Iris Murdoch

Christian Church
46

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.

John Ruskin

Christian Church
47

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Christian Church
48

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

James Joyce

Christian Church
49

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

Henry Fielding

Christian Church
50

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Samuel Johnson

Christian Church
51

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 Maria like 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.

Graham Greene

Christian Church
52

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

Christian Church
53

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

George Bernard Shaw

Christian Church
54

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.

George Bernard Shaw

Christian Church
55

Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

Martin Luther

Christian Church
56

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Christian Church

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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.

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.

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?

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

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

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

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

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

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

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

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

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after service.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

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

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.

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

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

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.

My own mind is my own church.

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

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

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.

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.

Sign in lot: Church parking only. We will not forgive those who trespass against us.

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

The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

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

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

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

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.

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

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

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

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

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.

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.

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

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

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

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

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

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.

Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.

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.