church quotes

• For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel. (Martin Luther) [god/church]
• Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon. (Martin Luther) [prayer/church]
• The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. (Henry Ward Beecher) [church/christians/school/education]
• What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! (William Blake) [wife/church/religion/politics]
• Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God. (John Calvin) [find/god/church/god]
• I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges. (George Carey) [church/church]
• The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. (Willa Cather) [church/rest/power/being]
• Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world. (Denis Diderot) [church]
• If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [church/willpower/find]
• Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves. (Thomas Fuller) [clothes/church]
• The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. (Heinrich Heine) [church/art]
• No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life. (Henry James) [devotion/church/service/literature]
• There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. (James Joyce) [philosophy/church/human/being]
• 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) [church/soul & body/soul & body/fear]
• Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel. (Martin Luther) [god/church]
• 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) [church/willpower]
• I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. (Thomas Paine) [church/church/church/church]
• My own mind is my own church. (Thomas Paine) [mind/church]
• Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. (Samuel Pepys) [church/strange/delight/people]
• Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook. (John Ruskin) [church/power/more/light]
• The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them. (John Ruskin) [church/men/salvation/people]
• He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo. (William Shakespeare) [bride/parting/church]
• We sing in a church, why can we not dance there? (George Bernard Shaw) [church]
• In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married. (Jonathan Swift) [church/vote]
• No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live. (Mark Twain) [god/religion/church/generosity]
• In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. (Simone Weil) [church/organism/beliefs]
• Our whole life revolved around the church, so that the only time I had a break from all that was when I would escape into the piano, ... So I created this whole other world that they couldn't get into. (Tori Amos) [life/church/time]
• He is caught up in the modern malady of extreme busyness and stress. But he can have moments of great lucidity and humor, and he cherishes his moments of quiet in the church, and in prayer. (Aidan Quinn) [stress/church/prayer]
• I did the 'Crook and Chase' show while I was in Nashville. They asked me if I had a church background, and when I said I was born a Baptist, that got the audience on fire. They must have all been Baptists. (Andy Griffith) [church]
• One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre. (David Soul) [beliefs/spirit/church/team]
• I'm - my love - I love my church. I love my church and through my church I see my country as the greatest gift God gave us, freedom. (James Caviezel) [love/love/church/love]

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