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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. (Collins Stephen)
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic. (Collins Stephen)
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. (Collins Stephen)
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. (Collins Stephen)
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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. (Collins Stephen)
The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture. (Collins Stephen)
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. (Collins Stephen)
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. (Collins Stephen)
People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too. (Collins Stephen)
I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges. (Collins Stephen)
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. (Collins Stephen)
A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility. (Collins Stephen)
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. (Collins Stephen)
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars. (Collins Stephen)
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke. (Collins Stephen)
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. (Collins Stephen)
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. (Collins Stephen)
The local church is the outcrop of the church universal. (Collins Stephen)
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves. (Collins Stephen)
Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. (Collins Stephen)
Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out. (Collins Stephen)
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave--with both ends kicked out. (Collins Stephen)
The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal. (Collins Stephen)
What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four. (Collins Stephen)
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. (Collins Stephen)
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