“Standing in a garage no more makes you a car than standing in a church makes you a Christian.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“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.
Disputed
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car." by Garrison Keillor?
Garrison Keillor61
American radio host and writer 1942Related quotes
Billy Sunday (1862–1935) American evangelist and baseball player
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.
Billy Sunday (1862–1935) American evangelist and baseball player
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.
Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer
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.
Disputed
Variant: Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car.
Saul D. Alinsky (1909–1972) American community organizer and writer
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971), p. 128
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42 (1996), p. 544
Attributed from posthumous publications
Gary Player (1935) South African golfer
Gary Player – Great Golfer, Better Human Being, WorldGolf.com, Kyle Dalton, 2008-12-09 http://www.worldgolf.com/course-design/gary-player-profile.htm,
John Locke (1632–1704) English philosopher and physician
279
The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695)
Eric S. Raymond (1957) American computer programmer, author, and advocate for the open source movement
"How to become a Hacker", reprinted in an appendix to The Cathedral and the Bazaar (2001), p. 196