Church-work goes on slowly. [ Proverb ]
Nothing lasts but the Church. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Bell, thou soundest merrily,
When the bridal party
To the church doth hie!
Bell, thou soundest solemnly,
When, on Sabbath morning,
Fields deserted lie! [ Longfellow ]
A free church in a free state. [ Cavour ]
A hot May fills the church-yard. [ Proverb ]
To be of no Church is dangerous. [ Samuel Johnson ]
Now it is the time of night,
That the graves, all gaping wide.
Every one lets forth its sprite.
In the church-way paths to glide. [ William Shakespeare ]
All are not saints that go to church. [ Proverb ]
For bells are the voice of the church;
They have tones that touch and search
The hearts of young and old. [ Longfellow ]
A green winter makes a fat church-yard. [ Proverb ]
Choke up, child, the church-yard's nigh. [ Proverb ]
A Gothic church is a petrified religion. [ Coleridge ]
For fashion's sake, as dogs go to church. [ Proverb ]
Keep the Church and State forever separate. [ U. S. Grant ]
The nearer the church, the further from God. [ Proverb ]
Bad priests bring the devil into the church. [ Proverb ]
Perhaps he hath great projects in his mind,
To build a college, or to found a race,
An hospital, a church - and leave behind
Some dome surmounted by his meagre face,
Perhaps he fain would liberate mankind
Even with the very ore which makes them base;
Perhaps he would be wealthiest of his nation,
Or revel in the joys of calculation. [ Byron ]
The bells call to church, but they do not enter. [ French Proverb ]
The itch of disputing is the scab of the Church. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Bells call others to church, but go not themselves. [ Proverb ]
Where God hath his church, the devil hath his chapel. [ Proverb ]
Let the church have leave to stand in the church-yard. [ Proverb ]
A man may be good in the camp and yet bad in the church. [ Proverb ]
Catholic charity makes us members of the Catholic church. [ Proverb ]
The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer. [ Martin Luther ]
Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the church. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It were better to be of no church than to be bitter for any. [ William Penn ]
Though you see a churchman ill, yet continue in the church still. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The church is out of temper when charity waxes cold, and zeal hot. [ Proverb ]
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves. [ Proverb ]
Like Wood's dog, he will neither go to the church nor stay at home. [ Proverb ]
Some make a conscience of spitting in the church, yet rob the altar. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that goes to church with brothers-in-law, comes back without kindred. [ Proverb ]
When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins. [ Cowper ]
The wolf does something every week, that hinders him from going to church a Sunday. [ Proverb ]
He that goes to church with an ill intention, goes to God's house on the devil's errand. [ Proverb ]
In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practiced to love their neighbor. [ Landor ]
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Literature is fast becoming all in all to us - our church, our senate, our whole social constitution. [ Carlyle ]
The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State. [ Lowell ]
In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the church, counted its martyrs by thousands. [ James A. Garfield ]
Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature. [ Shenstone ]
The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home. [ Milton ]
The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory. [ Emerson ]
Earnestness commands the respect of mankind. A wavering, vascillating, dead-and-alive Christian does not get the respect of the church or the world. [ John Hall ]
Look at home, father priest, mother priest; your church is a hundredfold heavier responsibility than mine can be. Your priesthood is from God's own hands. [ Ward Beecher ]
Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more. He asks of thee works first and words after. [ Charles Kingsley ]
If ever you have looked on better days, if ever been where bells have knolled to church, if ever sat at any good man's feast, if ever from your eyelids wiped a tear and know what it is to pity and be pitied, let gentleness my strong enforcement sue. [ William Shakespeare ]
The higher enthusiasm of man's nature is for the while without exponent; yet does it continue indestructible, unweariedly active, and work blindly in the great chaotic deep. Thus sect after sect, and church after church, bodies itself forth, and melts again into new metamorphosis. [ Carlyle ]
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant. [ Dr. Johnson ]
It has become a settled principle that nothing which is good and true can be destroyed by persecution, but that the effect ultimately is to establish more firmly, and to spread more widely, that which it was designed to overthrow. It has long since passed into a proverb that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
[ Albert Barnes ]
Lavater told Goethe that, on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
As soon the dust of a wretch whom thou wouldest not, as of a prince whom thou couldest not look upon, will trouble thine eyes if the wind blow it thither; and when a whirlwind hath blown the dust of the churchyard into the 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 is the noble flower, and this the yeoman, this the plebeian bran?
[ Rev. Dr. Donne ]
The grandest operations, both in nature and in grace, are the most silent and imperceptible. The shallow brook babbles in its passage, and is heard by every one; but the coming on of the seasons is silent and unseen. The storm rages and alarms, but its fury is soon exhausted, and its effects are partial and soon remedied; but the dew, though gentle and unheard, is immense in quantity, and the very life of large portions of the earth. And these are pictures of the operations of grace in the church and in the soul. [ Cecil ]