George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist “the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.” Church Watches Band ♥ 3
George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter “There's this morbid side to the way many represent Christianity today, where you don't smile, because it's too serious, and you can't expect to see God - that kind of stuff. If there is God, we must see Him, and I don't believe in the idea you find in most churches, where they say, "No, you're not going to see Him. He's way up above you. Just believe what we tell you and shut up."” Believe Ideas Church ♥ 3
GH George Herbert Poet “Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.” Church Conscience ♥ 3
GH George Herbert Poet “Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.” Men Church ♥ 3
Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author “The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist.” Body Church ♥ 3
GH George Herbert Poet “No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]” Men Desire Church ♥ 3
Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher “Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.” Church Christ Assertion ♥ 3
Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author “The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.” Church Moral Behavior ♥ 3
Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist “If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.” World Church Grows ♥ 3
Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist “Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment or private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge.” Book Church Opposites ♥ 3
