Church Of England Quotes - Page 2

• The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.

  Tony Benn

  Christian, Party, Church

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• I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

  Kate Adie

  Girl, Teacher, Nice

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• For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.

  Ann Widdecombe

  Years, Catholic, Church

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• Is the Church of England an Anglican church? The church did not start in Canterbury, the church did not start in Rome. Whether Canterbury is Anglican or not is immaterial. We are Anglicans. They are the Church of England.

  Peter Akinola

  Rome, Church, England

  "The Leader of Nearly 18 Million Nigerian Anglicans Challenges the West's Theology and Control" by Douglas LeBlanc, www.churchoftheword.net. October 13, 2006.

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• "The Church of England," I said, seeing that Mr. Inglesant paused, "is no doubt a compromise."

  Joseph Henry Shorthouse

  Doubt, Church, England

  Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1902). “John Inglesant: A Romance ...”

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• The Church in England is the Church of England.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Church, England

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• If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Christian, Character, Practice

  "The Works of Benjamin Franklin".

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• Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment or private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Opposites, Church

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• In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all her subjects, and no one is better at making everyone she meets feel valued.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Queens, Church

  "The Queen’s Multi-faith Society" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Thinking, Church

  1878 An Inland Voyage,'At Maubeuge'.

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• I say to you Baptists, "Go on being good Baptists, thinking that you are more right than anybody else." Unless you think it, I have no use for you at all. The Church of England does precisely the same itself.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Thinking, Church, England

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• At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

  Michael Caine

  Mother, Father, School

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• Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is--Put down enthusiasm!The Church of England in a nutshell.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Eye, Two, Church

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• Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Rome, Differences, Atheism

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.21

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