Famous Quotes About Church

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.

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

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 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 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.

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.