CHURCH QUOTES III

quotations about church

The nearer the church, the further from God.

BISHOP ANDREWS

sermon on the Nativity before James I, 1622


When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life 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


Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things than to prayer. The lips repeat the prayer mechanically like a phonograph record, but the mind wanders to other places.

SRI S. SATCHIDANANDA

The Yoga Sutras


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

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


You left my heart as empty
As a Monday morning church
It used to be so full of faith and now it only hurts
And I can hear the devil whisper
"Things are only getting worse"
You left my heart as empty
As a Mondy morning church

ALAN JACKSON

"Monday Morning Church"


The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely. The Head is the only begotten Son of God, the body is His Church; the bridegroom and the bride, two in one flesh. All who dissent from the Scriptures concerning Christ, although they may be found in all places in which the Church is found, are not in the Church; and again all those who agree with the Scriptures concerning the Head, and do not communicate in the unity of the Church, are not in the Church.

ST. AUGUSTINE

De Unitate Ecclesiae


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

BERNARD LONERGAN

attributed, Quotes for the Journey


The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

HENRI-DOMINIQUE LACORDAIRE

Letters to Young Men


The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.

FERDINAND MAGELLAN

attributed, The Quotable Atheist


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

CHARLES H. SPURGEON

attributed, Deciduous Belief


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


Behind this Church, made out of the blood and bricks you see before you, there is another Church, infinite and invisible, whose flags are raised towards heaven. This Church lives in the hearts of the millions of the faithful who love Christ and his message. It will be reborn from its ashes and fill the world.

JUAN GOMEZ-JURADO

God's Spy


Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

EMILE ZOLA

attributed, What Great Men Think of Religion


That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals who control it and who have removed the bells from its steeples.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Light in August


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


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"


The church is God's vineyard.

H. BULLINGER

attributed, Day's Collacon


When a man unites with the church, he should not come saying, "I am so holy that I think I must go in among the saints," but, "O brethren, I find I am so weak and wicked that I cannot stand alone; so, if you can help me, open the door and let me enter."

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


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

LENNY BRUCE

The Essential Lenny Bruce