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ChurchesFound 56 items. Pages: 1 2 3 4 >>sort alphabetically | sort by highest rating (142 votes) We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (124 votes) Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964 Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (107 votes) An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (104 votes) I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.Brooks Atkinson 1894-1984, American Journalist, Drama Critic Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (80 votes) A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (79 votes) It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.Jane Austen 1775-1817, British Novelist Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (76 votes) There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.James Joyce 1882-1941, Irish Author Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (56 votes) But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compass, not a weathercock.Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (53 votes) A group touring Westminster Abbey in London heard the guide list the famous people buried within its walls. During a momentary silence a little old lady's voice blurted out loud and clear, ''Anybody been saved here lately?''Source Unknown Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (52 votes) What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (47 votes) The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (45 votes) I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.Billy Wilder 1906-, American Film Director Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (39 votes) Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.Billy Graham 1918-, American Evangelist Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (35 votes) Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.Charles De Gaulle 1890-1970, French President during World War II Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website (32 votes) Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.Irish Proverb Sayings of Irish Origin Rate this quote: (bad)< copy to your blog, myspace, or website Found 56 items. Pages: 1 2 3 4 >> |
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