Quotes about Churches

“My own mind is my own church.”

“A little, round, fat, oily man of God.”

“Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.”

“The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.”

“Too hot to go to Church? What about Hell?”

“The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.”

“I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.”

“This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.”

“We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?”

“He who is near the Church is often far from God.”

“Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.”

“The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.”

“Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.”

“The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.”

“A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.”

“A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.”

“Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.”

“The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.”

“It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.”

“I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.”

“The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.”

“I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.”

“I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.”

“And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.”

“The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.”

“Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.”

“Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave--with both ends kicked out.”

“Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.”

“The greatest hindrances to the evangelization of the world are those within the church.”

“There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.”