He goes to church on Sunday, He passes round the contribution box; But meet him in his office on a Monday, He’s crooked and as cunning as a fox; On Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday He’s robbing everybody that he can; But he goes to church on Sunday So they say that he’s an honest […]
Church Quotes
Outer truths had such primacy that Christ was abandoned. As the Church drops certain practices and ideals, the world picks them up and secularizes them. As the rosary is dropped, hippies put them around their necks; as nuns drop the long habits, girls put on maxi-coats; as mysticism is forgotten, youths go in for psychedelic […]
Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours. (“B.C.”)
It is no surprise that when today’s affluent young professionals return to church, they want to do it only on their own terms – what’s amazing is how far the churches are going to oblige.
Suppose we’ve chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we’re just making him madder and madder. (Homer Simpson)
To the Church I once went, but I grieved and I sorrowed; for the season was Lent, and the sermon as borrowed.
One should not go into church if one wants to breathe pure air.
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
The difference between going to church and a baseball game is that at church, you sing out “Stand Up for Jesus,” while at a baseball game you shout “Siddown, for Chrissakes!”
Discovering the Church is apt to be a slow procedure but it can take place if you have a free mind and no vested interest in disbelief.
