Churches

(256 votes)   We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(207 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

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(190 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

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(186 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

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(168 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

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(151 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

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(132 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

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(121 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?''

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(111 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

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(110 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

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(96 votes)   The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(95 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

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(93 votes)   Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

Irish Proverbs
Sayings of Irish Origin

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(89 votes)   I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

Billy Wilder
1906-, American Film Director

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(83 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

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