CHURCH

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1. It is an unanswerable argument that the statistics of new members of the nation's leading churches show great gains when the country is in a depression, and declines when the country, in the midst of a boom period, is throwing away money and burning the candle at both ends!—ROGER BABSON, Business Fundamentals
   

2. Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.—BURKE
   

3. Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

4. Built God a church, and laugh'd His word to scorn.—COWPER, Retirement
   

5. Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
   The Devil always builds a chapel there;
   And 'twill be found, upon examination,
   The latter has the largest congregation.—DEFOE, The True-Born Englishman
   

6. To be of no church is dangerous.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

7. The great scandal of the nine­teenth century is the divorce between the working classes and the church.—JACQUES MARITAIN, I Believe
   

8. And storied windows richly dight,
   Casting a dim religious light.—MILTON, Il Penseroso
   

9. When the existence of the Church is threatened, she is released from the commandments of morality. With unity as the end, the use of every means is sanctified, even cunning, treachery, violence, simony, prison, death. For all order is for the sake of the community, and the individual must be sacrificed to the common good.—BISHOP VON NIEHEIM, De schismate libri, 1411
   

10. Who builds a church to God, and not to fame,
    Will never mark the marble with his name.—POPE, Moral Essays
    

11. Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.—Proverb
    

12. Church-work goes on slowly.—Proverb
    

13. But do you know what I would tell you? In the primitive church, the
    chalices were of wood, the prelates of gold. In these days the church has
    chalices of gold and prelates of wood.—SAVONAROLA
    

14. I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.—STEVENSON