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As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keepsthem invery good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it [the church] besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it, he stands up, and looks about him; and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servant to them.
Ubi Petrus, ibi ergo ecclesia. Where Peter is, there, accordingly, is the Church.
He was ofthefaith chiefly inthesensethatthe churchhe currently did not attend was Catholic.
The nearer the Church, the further from God.
To have one's credit cards cancelled is nowakin to being excommunicated by the medieval church.
You will soon hate me as much as you love me now, for you assume an authority in the affairs of the church to which I shall never assent.
In Atlanta, the first question is'What's your business?' In Macon, it is 'Where do you go to church?' In Augusta they want your grandmother's maiden name.But in Savannah, the first question is'What would you like to drink?'
Broad of Church and broad of Mind, Broad before and broad behind, A keen ecclesiologist, A rather dirty Wykehamist.
Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.
As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and with no explanation if he can help it.
The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.
I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried: He descended into hell;The third day he rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost;The holy Catholick Church;The Communion of Saints;The Forgiveness of sins;The Resurrection of the body, And the life everlasting. Amen.
And I believe in one Catholick and Apostolick Church.
Let us pray for the whole state of Christ's Church militant here in earth.
Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea? 156
In brief, where the Scripture is silent, the church is my text; where that speaks,'tis but my comment; where there is a joint silence of both, I borrow not the rules of my religionfrom Rome or Geneva, butthe dictates of my own reason.
The existence of St Sophia is atmospheric; that of St Peter's, overpowering, imminently substantial.One is a church to God; the other a salon for his agents.One is consecrated to reality, the other to illusion. St Sophia, in fact, is large, and St Peter's is vilely, tragically small.
The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.
'What is a church?'Our honest sexton tells, ''Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.'
'Halloa! Here's a church! Let's go in! Here's Miss Skiffins! Let's have a wedding.'
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church I keep it, staying at Home With a Bobolink for a Chorister And an Orchard, for a Dome
Consider Ireland. Thus you have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Churchand in addition, the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.
It comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. The ashes of an oak in the chimney are no epitaph of that oak, to tell me how high or how large that was; it tells me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what men it hurt when it felland when a whirlwind hathblownthedustofthechurchyard intothe church, and the man sweeps out the dust of the church into the churchyard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce,This is the Patrician, this the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebeian bran.
The air isnot sofull of motes, of atoms, asthe church is of mercies.
Had every Christian in Hitler's Europe followed the example of the king of Denmark and decided to put on the yellow star, there would be today neither despair in the church nor talk of the death of God.
How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill.
Farewell, sweet phrases, lovely metaphors: But will ye leave me thus? when ye before Of stews and brothels only knew the doors, Then did I wash you with my tears, and more, Brought you to church well-dressed and clad: My God must have my best, even all I had.
Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
'Come all to church, good people,' Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
The church must be reminded that it is not the master or servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.
A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been, Lives in a dream. Waits at the window, wearing the facethat she keeps in a jar by the door, Who is it for? All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
All forms of government fall when it comes up to the question of breadbread for the family, something to eat.Bread to a manwith a family comes firstbefore his union, before his citizenship, before his church affiliation. Bread!
I must be mad, or very tired, When the curve of a blue bay beyond a railroad track Is shrill and sweet to me like the sudden springing of a tune, And the sight of a white church above thin trees in a city square Amazes my eyes as though it were the Parthenon.
The patron saint of journalists, officially named by the church, is St.Francisde Sales.Thetraditional patronsaint of editors is St.John Bosco. (The protector of computer- age journalists may well be St. Anthony of Padua, patron saint of searchers for lost articles.)
A high church for the true mediocre.
God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?
So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold: So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on theTree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.
A nosotros nos ensen aron a respetar la iglesia, a no toser, a no escupir en el atrio, a no lavar la ropa en el altar y no es as | : la vida rompe las religiones. We were taught respect for the church, no hawking and spitting on porticos, don't soak your socks on the altar but things are different: life smashes religions.
We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no majority, no government, church, corporation, trade, or professional association or trade union. The secret of its freedom is that it is composed of a multitude of organisations in the constitution of the best of which is reproduced that diffusion of power which is characteristic of the whole.
Let usnever toleratetheslightest inroad onthe discipline of our holy Church. Let us never consent that she should be made the hireling of the Ministry. Our forefathers would have diednay, perished in hopeless slaveryrather than consent to such degradation.
As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there.
It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.
The Church of England should no longer be satisfied to represent only the Conservative Party at prayer.
In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshipper and the worshipper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three. It is, in short, the dream of a madman.
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.
The Church's one foundation Is Jesus Christ, her Lord; She is his new creation By water and the word; From heaven he came and sought her To be his holy bride, With his own blood he bought her. And for her life he died.
'Before she came,'said a soldier,'there was cussin'and swearin', but after that it was 'oly as a church.' The most cherished privilege of the fighting man was abandoned for the sake of Miss Nightingale.
Will she pass in a crowd? Will she make a figure in a country church?
In Church your grandsire cut his throat; To do the job too long he tarried, He should have had my hearty vote, To cut his throat before he married.
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church, to preserve all that travel by land, or by water. 832
I believe in the Church, one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church; and nowhere does it exist.
She came to the village church, And sat by a pillar alone; An angel watching an urn Wept over her, carved in stone.
But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have killed their Christ.
Pale rain over the dwindling harbour And over the sea wet church the size of a snail With its horns through mist and the castle Brown as owls.
Church ain't shucks to a circus.
Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.
She say,Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for himtoshow. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
I have noticed again and again since I have been in the Churchthat lay interest in ecclesiastical matters is often a prelude to insanity.
'You're a Christian?' 'Church of England,'said Mr Polly. 'Mm,'said the employer, a little checked.'For good all round business work, I should have preferred a Baptist.'
I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.
Under bare Ben Bulben's head In Drumcliffe churchyard Yeats is laid, An ancestor was rector there Long years ago; a church stands near, By the road an ancient Cross. No marble, no conventional phrase, On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!
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