CHURCH QUOTES IV

quotations about church

See, that why I ain't go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want'a talk to God, well I say, "howdy-howdy, God," and we jaw fer a bit.

DAVID BALDACCI

Wish You Well


There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Surely as a man may say of a rock--nothing more quiet, because it is never stirred; and yet nothing more unquiet, because it is ever assaulted--so we may say of the church--nothing more peaceable, because it is established upon a rock; and yet nothing more unpeaceable, because that rock is in the midst of seas, winds, enemies, and persecutions.

EDWARD REYNOLDS

Explication of the Hundred and Tenth Psalm


Damn the Church. Damn it for imposing impossible celibacy on its people. Damn it for hypocrisy--Christendom was littered with priests wallowing in varieties of sin. How many of them were condemned? And damn it for its hatred of women--an abuse of half the world's inhabitants, so that those who refused to be penned into its sheepfold were condemned as harlots and heretics and witches.

ARIANA FRANKLIN

The Serpent's Tale


It belongs to the church to suffer blows, not to strike them.

BEZA

attributed, Day's Collacon


The Church is a conspiracy to corrupt men's morals.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims


Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in but I bet it was a robot church for androids, where the Bible was in binary and their Jesus had laser eyes and metal claws.

RUSSELL BRAND

My Booky Wook


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

Table Talk, 1686


The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.

BERNARD LONERGAN

attributed, Quotes for the Journey


It wasn't that she had anything against the faith of the New Testament; left alone, it would be a tender and compassionate religion.... No, what Adelia objected to was the Church's interpretation of God as a petty, stupid, moneygrubbing, retrograde, antediluvian tyrant who, having created a stupendously varied world, had forbidden any inquiry into its complexity, leaving His people flailing in ignorance.

ARIANA FRANKLIN

Mistress of the Art of Death


There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church, that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


See the Gospel Church secure,
And founded on a Rock!
All her promises are sure;
Her bulwarks who can shock?
Count her every precious shrine;
Tell, to after-ages tell,
Fortified by power divine,
The Church can never fail.

CHARLES WESLEY

Scriptural


The church is important only as it ministers to purity of heart and life; and every church which so ministers is a good one; no matter how, when, or where it grew up; no matter whether it worship on its knees, or on its feet, or whether its ministers are ordained by pope, bishop, presbyter, or people; these are secondary things, and of no comparative moment. The church which opens on heaven is that, and that only, in which the spirit of heaven dwells. The church where worship rises to God's ear is that, and that only, where the soul ascends. No matter whether it be gathered in cathedral or barn; whether it sit in silence or send up a hymn; whether the minister speak from carefully prepared notes, or from immediate, fervent, irrepressible suggestion. If God be loved, and Jesus Christ be welcomed to the soul, and his instructions be meekly and wisely heard, and the solemn purpose grow up to do all duty amidst all conflict, sacrifice, and temptation, then the true end of the church is answered.

WILLIAM E. CHANNING

Thoughts


Church was never meant to be a place for gods to gather, but for devils wanting to shed their horns for halos.

RICHELLE E. GOODRICH

Being Bold


The church alone beyond all question
Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Faust


Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life

HOZIER

"Take Me to Church"


We in the church have humility and contrition to offer the world, not a formula for success. Almost alone in our success-oriented society, we admit that we have failed, are failing, and always will fail.

PHILIP YANCEY

Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?


Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

CHARLES DE LINT

The Little Country


The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

CHARLES H. SPURGEON

attributed, Deciduous Belief


Every day, people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

LENNY BRUCE

The Essential Lenny Bruce