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Quotes about churches
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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. (Sanger Margaret)
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic. (Sanger Margaret)
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. (Sanger Margaret)
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. (Sanger Margaret)
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. (Sanger Margaret)
The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture. (Sanger Margaret)
The church exists to train its member through the practice of the presence of God to be servants of others, to the end that Christlikeness may become common property. (Sanger Margaret)
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. (Sanger Margaret)
People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too. (Sanger Margaret)
I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges. (Sanger Margaret)
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. (Sanger Margaret)
A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility. (Sanger Margaret)
We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual. (Sanger Margaret)
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars. (Sanger Margaret)
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke. (Sanger Margaret)
His creed no parson ever knew, for this was still his simple plan, to have with clergymen to do as little as a Christian can. (Sanger Margaret)
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. (Sanger Margaret)
The local church is the outcrop of the church universal. (Sanger Margaret)
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves. (Sanger Margaret)
Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. (Sanger Margaret)
Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out. (Sanger Margaret)
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave--with both ends kicked out. (Sanger Margaret)
The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal. (Sanger Margaret)
What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four. (Sanger Margaret)
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery. (Sanger Margaret)
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