Church Stained Quotes

#1. Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur(nothing moves without having been moved).

Aristotle.

#2. Within my hearing you have spoken of the beauty of this small city. How standing inside the stained-glass confection of the old church was like being imprisoned inside a kaleidoscope of jewels. It was like being in the heart of the sun.

Neil Gaiman

#3. I wish I could be elegant.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#4. In a church of my own we're perfect together
I recognize you in the stained glass

Heather Nova

#5. Those who criticize the innovative concept of multi-site churches must also remember that at one point stained glass and hymnals were new as well.

Braden Pedersen

#6. He was just alive," [Gansey] said helplessly. "He just taught us four irregular verbs last week. And you killed him.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.

Jesse Ventura

#8. For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass
Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist
The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass.

Allen Tate

#9. What about Caleb? Shouldn't you wait 'til he

Heather Graham

#10. Fix your eyes on Jesus; it's ok to stare.

Bob Goff

#11. All too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows

Martin Luther King Jr.

#12. I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.

Kangana Ranaut

#13. How often it is that an idea that seems bright bossed and gleaming in its clarity when examined in a church, or argued over with a friend in a frosty garden, becomes clouded and murk-stained when dragged out into the field of actual endeavor. pg. 65

Geraldine Brooks

#14. If you want to make money, you can't afford to make excuses

Seth Czerepak

#15. He looked up at the round, stained glass window in front of him, a blurred kaleidoscope backlit in the morning sun. It glowed. The color of heaven. Of her hair.
He sat back and cracked open the dry, leather cover of a pew Bible, and a mixture of sweat and tears christened its pristine pages.

Red Tash

#16. If she were Catholic, she could kneel, kneel and bow her head inside a church with brilliant stained-glass windows and streaks of golden light falling over her. Yes, oh yes, she would kneel and stretch out her arms, holding to her Amy and Dottie and Bev.

Elizabeth Strout

#17. Motherfucker, you haven't got the fucking balls God gave a goddamned church mouse. You crawled out of your mama's tattered old pussy, grabbed hold of her milk stained titties, and you ain't never looked back, motherfucker.

David Sedaris

#18. The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

Robert McAfee Brown

#19. Never try to be a thought leader. There's no value in that. Instead, try to add value.

Chris Brogan

#20. I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school.

Brad Holland

#21. I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.

Anne Lamott

#22. Yes I never go to the gym otherwise because I think it's a waste of time and the most boring thing on earth.

Izabella Scorupco

#23. I see you kneeling in church - stained only by colored windows

John Geddes