| Citat |
Sagt av |
| att gå i kyrkan gör diig inte mer till en kristen än att gå i garaget gör dig till en bil | Laurence J. Peter (1919-) |
| dagligen lämnar folk kyrkan och vänder åter till gud | Lenny Bruce (1925-1966) |
| Danskarna har samma förhållande till kyrkan som till bensinstationer. Först när lampan på bensinmätaren börjar lysa ser sig bilisten om efter en mack. | Egon Lausen |
| Det gäller att ha mod att vara den man är o inte tappa modet för man är den man är. | Ukjent |
| Det kyrkan inte kan förhindra, välsignar den. | Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935) |
| Det talas så ofta om tomma kyrkor. En vacker dag är en av oss tvungen att gå dit för att se om det stämmer | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Gå i kyrkan nästa söndag - undvik julruschen. | Alberto Sordi (1920-) |
| I kyrkorna finns det som regel fler kvinnor än män, eftersom männen inte intresserar sig för andra mäns kläder. | Alberto Sordi (1920-) |
| Inget liv är så intressant för kyrkan som underlivet. | Per Havikbotn |
| Kyrkan är den manliga dominansens sista skans. | Cynthia Wedel |
| Kyrkans ansikte är en syndares ansikte | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Utan kyrka inget helvete. | Max Frisch (1911-1991) |
| I dag er folkekirken et tomt, men rigt aktieselskab, hvor man betaler 750 kr. i entre over skattebilletten for at opleve den årlige julegudstjeneste eller dåb. | Jørgen Thorgaard |
| Den måske længst varende fornøjelse i livet er fornøjelsen ved ikke at gå i kirke. | William Ralph Inge (1860-1954) |
| Essentially, a church is a community that keeps alive the dangerous memories of its classics. | David Tracy |
| The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation | Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) |
| The church lives on the fact that modern research about Jesus is not known amongst the public | Hans Konzelmann |
| If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches? Lemuel K | Lemuel K. Washburn |
| People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy | Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) |
| It has always been difficult to get very close to the spirit of the Sistine Chapel; now that it is cleaned, it is like trying to get close to a trumpet. | Nigel McGilchrist |
| The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed. | John Wesley (1703-1791) |
| In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians | Karl Barth (1886-1968) |
| The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts | Philip Sidney, Sr. (1554-1586) |
| Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches | St. Thomas Aquinas |
| The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted | William Ralph Inge (1860-1954) |
| The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church | Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) |
| The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. | Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) |
| I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. | George Carlin (1937-) |
| Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all ages will turn to ashes on the lips of men | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate. | General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) |
| Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory? | Charles de Lint (1951-) |
| People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy | Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) |
| If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth | Gerald Vann |
| In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians | Karl Barth (1886-1968) |
| Are we to have a church in which everyone's judgment is equal to everyone else's? That's not a church, it's chaos. Common sense dictates that you keep the fox out of the chicken coop. | William Ralph Inge (1860-1954) |
| The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted | William Ralph Inge (1860-1954) |
| The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed. | John Wesley (1703-1791) |
| Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, and the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation | Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) |
| Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches | St. Thomas Aquinas |
| Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves | Francis Schaeffer |
| Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. | Lenny Bruce (1925-1966) |
| People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-) |
| I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so | Saint Augustine (354-430) |
| The church lives on the fact that modern research about Jesus is not known amongst the public | Hans Konzelmann |
| Church isn’t where you meet. Church isn’t a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church. | Bridget Willard |
| The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of.Our attention would have been on God. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation | Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) |
| Raw cucumber makes the churchyards prosperous | English Proverb |
| Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. | H. G. Wells (1866-1946) |
| The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message. | Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) |
| Some go to church to see and be seen, Some go there to say they have been, Some go there to sleep and nod, But few go there to worship God | Proverb |
| The church is near but the road is icy, the bar is far away but I will walk carefully | Russian Proverb |
| The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts | Sydney Smith (1771-) |
| Kirken ble etter hvert til en pine for meg, for der ble det preket høyt - jeg har nær sagt: skamløst - om Gud, hva han mener, hva Han gjør. | Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) |
| Kirken blir fremskrittsvennlig overalt hvor fremskritt ikke lenger kan hindres. | Helge Krog (1889-1962) |
| Kirkene i USA er en slags skjønnhetssalong for sjelene. | Thomas Niederreuther |
| Vi kan godt forestille oss Gud uten kirken, men ikke kirken uten Gud. | Thomas Mann (1875-1955) |