Churches Quotes

551 Churches quotes by 424 unique authors

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization… — Susan Sontag
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the… — John Steinbeck
I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If… — George Carlin
It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look… — E. M. Forster
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. — Benjamin Franklin
I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought… — William Saroyan
To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up longer. He places… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual… — Swami Vivekananda
What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the… — Henry Miller
But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches. — David James Duncan
Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute? — Annie Dillard
The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege dose not change… — Spencer W. Kimball
But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's… — Tim O'Brien
Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or… — Jacques Barzun
I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just… — Yann Martel
Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this… — Neal Stephenson
I have now been an officer in this Church for a very long time. I am an old man who cannot deny the calendar. I… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of… — John Steinbeck
My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and, therefore, cannot be expected… — C.S. Lewis
In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches. — Frank Herbert
Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the… — Mahatma Gandhi
Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can… — Mark Steyn
But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The… — Barbara Ehrenreich
I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there; in her fiertile… — W. Cleon Skousen
Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution. — Robert A. Heinlein

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