“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
Though Keillor has been quoted on the internet and in print as having made this or a similar remark, such expressions have been made by others, and may have originated with Billy Sunday, who is quoted as having said "Going to church on Sunday does not make you a Christian any more than going into a garage makes you an automobile!" in Press, Radio, Television, Periodicals, Public Relations, and Advertising, As Seen through Institutes and Special Occasions of the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism (1967) edited by John Eldridge Drewry.
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American radio host and writer 1942Related quotes
“Standing in a garage no more makes you a car than standing in a church makes you a Christian.”
“Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car.”
Though Keillor has been quoted on the internet and in print as having made this or a similar remark, such expressions have been made by others, and may have originated with Billy Sunday, who is quoted as having said "Going to church on Sunday does not make you a Christian any more than going into a garage makes you an automobile!" in Press, Radio, Television, Periodicals, Public Relations, and Advertising, As Seen through Institutes and Special Occasions of the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism (1967) edited by John Eldridge Drewry.
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in Press, Radio, Television, Periodicals, Public Relations, and Advertising, As Seen through Institutes and Special Occasions of the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism (1967) edited by John Eldridge Drewry.
“No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.”
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971), p. xxiv
Source: Roger Biles, The human tradition in urban America http://books.google.pl/books?id=DqayY98DDDcC&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&dq=church+garage+automobile&source=bl&ots=NMnjn43sFY&sig=I-YoAzHs5ChdCEE6lsOEK073WQY&hl=pl&sa=X&ei=sUsCT6-QE8vJsgb4qfmDAg&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=church%20garage%20automobile&f=false (2002), p. 128.
“A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.”
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971), p. 128
A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42 (1996), p. 544
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