Church-Of-England
Quotes on Church Of England
Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!
Daniel Defoe (1659-1731) English writer
This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and No.
Cardinal John Newman (1801-1890)
Place before your eyes two precepts, and only two. One is Preach the Gospel; and the other is Put down enthusiasm . .. The Church of England in a nutshell.
Mrs Humphrey Ward (1851-1920) British novelist
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is, that if you let it alone, it will let you alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher
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.
Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729) English dramatist, essayist, editor
I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English writer, clergyman
I must believe in the Apostolic Succession, there being no other way of accounting for the descent of the Bishop of Exeter from Judas Iscariot.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English writer, clergyman
The Church of England seems to wish us to regard birth as the entry to sin, marriage as a means of avoiding one aspect of sin, and death to be the welcome relief whereby we can sin no more.
Sir Steuart Wilson (1889-1966) British administrator, musician
A soul cannot be eternally satisfied with kindness, and a soothing murmur, and the singing of hymns
R. H. Benson (1871-1914) British novelist (and Catholic apologist)
To tolerate everything is to teach nothing.
Dr F. J. Kinsman (1868-1944)
I do hereby profess . . . that Protestantism is the dreariest of possible religions; that the thought of the Anglican service makes me shiver, and the thought of the Thirty-Nine Articles makes me shudder.
Cardinal John Newman (1801-1890) English churchman, theologian
