Chaplain Quotes
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The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.
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More Chaplain Quotes
The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front."
kurt vonnegut— Hocus Pocus (1990); 1997 reprint, page 180.
"That light," said the Chaplain, "is it going up or coming down?" "It's coming down," said Lord Asriel, "but it isn't light. It's Dust ." Something in the way he said it made Lyra imagine dust with a capital letter, as if this wasn't ordinary dust. The reaction of the Scholars confirmed her feeling, because Lord Asriel's words caused a sudden collective silence, followed by gasps of incredulity.
philip pullman— Ch. 1 : The Decanter of Tokay
It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the Chaplain he fell madly in love with him.
joseph heller— Opening Lines
Anglican chaplains were remarkably out of touch with their troops. The Second Battalion Chaplain, just before the Loos fighting, had preached a violent sermon on the Battle against Sin, at which one old soldier behind me had grumbled: "Christ, as if one bloody push wasn't enough to worry about at a time!"
robert graves— Ch. 17 (Goodbye to All That (1929))
