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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
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L. L. Nash
L. L. Nash books
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A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.
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Henry Chadwick
Henry Chadwick books
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56 votes
A little, round, fat, oily man of God.
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James Thomson
James Thomson books
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And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
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Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe books
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Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
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H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken books
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
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Irish Proverb
Irish Proverb books
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Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.
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Dwight L. Moody
Dwight L. Moody books
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Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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Charles De Gaulle
Charles De Gaulle books
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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
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Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis books
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He who is near the Church is often far from God.
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French Proverb
French Proverb books
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I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.
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George Carey
George Carey books
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I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder books
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I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
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Brooks Atkinson
Brooks Atkinson books
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I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith books
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I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
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James Thomson
James Thomson books
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In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil books
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61 votes
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
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William Penn
William Penn books
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Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
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Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller books
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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave--with both ends kicked out.
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Vance Havner
Vance Havner books
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My own mind is my own church.
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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine books
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Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
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Lord Melbourne
Lord Melbourne books
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Sign in lot: Church parking only. We will not forgive those who trespass against us.
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Source Unknown
Source Unknown books
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The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.
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John Wesley
John Wesley books
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The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green Ingersoll books
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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
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Fred A. Allen
Fred A. Allen books
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The greatest hindrances to the evangelization of the world are those within the church.
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John R. Mott
John R. Mott books
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The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.
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Sir Henry Wotton
Sir Henry Wotton books
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45 votes
The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.
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Peter T. Forsyth
Peter T. Forsyth books
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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle books
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The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
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William Cowper
William Cowper books
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67 votes
The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.
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Voltaire
Voltaire books
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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James Joyce
James Joyce books
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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson books
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Though the church has many critics, it has no rivals.
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Source Unknown
Source Unknown books
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Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?
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Ohio Poster In Dayton
Ohio Poster In Dayton books
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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw books
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Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther books
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58 votes