Churches Quotes

37 quotations about Churches
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
Fred A. Allen · Churches
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
Kingsley Amis · Churches
I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
Brooks Atkinson · Churches
I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.
George Carey · Churches
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Thomas Carlyle · Churches
A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.
Henry Chadwick · Churches
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
William Cowper · Churches
And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
Daniel Defoe · Churches
The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.
Peter T. Forsyth · Churches
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
Thomas Fuller · Churches
Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
Charles De Gaulle · Churches
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave--with both ends kicked out.
Vance Havner · Churches
The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
Robert Green Ingersoll · Churches
This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
Samuel Johnson · Churches
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
James Joyce · Churches
Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.
Martin Luther · Churches
Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
Lord Melbourne · Churches
Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
H. L. Mencken · Churches
Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.
Dwight L. Moody · Churches
The greatest hindrances to the evangelization of the world are those within the church.
John R. Mott · Churches
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
L. L. Nash · Churches
My own mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine · Churches
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.
William Penn · Churches
Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?
Ohio Poster In Dayton · Churches
He who is near the Church is often far from God.
French Proverb · Churches

Authors on Churches

Fred A. Allen Kingsley Amis Brooks Atkinson George Carey Thomas Carlyle Henry Chadwick William Cowper Daniel Defoe Peter T. Forsyth French Proverb Thomas Fuller Charles De Gaulle Vance Havner Robert Green Ingersoll Irish Proverb Samuel Johnson James Joyce Martin Luther Lord Melbourne H. L. Mencken