People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
Church Quotes
Without knowing it, I became a logical positivist at about the age of ten. Every Sunday, I was supposed to make the two-mile walk to the local Church of England à it was a long time before I discovered there was any other variety à to attend a service for the village youth. To encourage […]
Christ lives on in the Church, but Christ crucified. One might almost venture to say that the defects of the Church are His Cross.
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
For all in common she prays, for all in common she works, in the temptations of all she is tried.
It (the Holy Roman Church) firmly believes, professes, and proclaims that those not living within the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics cannot become participants in eternal life, but will depart into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels… , and that no one, whatever […]
But if at the Church they would give us some Ale. And a pleasant fire, our souls to regale; We’d sing and we’d pray, all the live-long day; Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray, (“The Little Vagabond”)
