Best church & church-bells Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.”

Men Children Dream Light Fighting Waiting Church Struggle Longing Profound Caught Rings Ice Pounds Bells Cream Traffic Veteran Ice Cream Junk Sirens Vendors Traffic Light Church Bells

Author:Jackson Browne

“I'm worried that a few people are confusing the ringing of a church bell with the ringing of a cash register, .. When I hear about leaders of charities being provided a $300,000 Bentley to drive around in, my fear is that it's the taxpayers who subsidize this charity who are really being taken for a ride.”

People Church Leader Taken Charity Worried Cash Bells Confusing Taxpayers Register Bentley Church Bells

Author:Chuck Grassley

“In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring.”

Men Church London Rings Scream Bells Church Bells

Book:Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)

Source: Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)

“And all the world is football-shaped It's just for me to kick in space And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste And I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to take this all in I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to taste the difference 'tween a lemon and a lime Pain and pleasure and the church bells softly chime.”

World Trying I Can Two Pain Three Differences Church Space Pleasure Five Four Football Taste Smell Senses Kicks Bells Lemons Five Senses Limes Chimes Tweens Church Bells

Author:Andy Partridge

“The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.”

Heart Joy Humanity Church Common Land Sweet Christmas Bells Sects Great Joy Common Humanity Chimes Church Bells

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our hearts. Like the poet's image of a church bell that reveals its latent music only when struck, or a dragonfly that flames forth its beauty only in flight, so does the content of a human heart lie buried until action calls it forth. The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is and knowing that a thing is not.”

“If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.”

Ifs Made Sound Church Blood Madness Slavery Raised Rings Excellent Torture Sugar Bells Organs Adultery Hideous Homicide Church Bells

Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years ago as their best defense. When you have in front of you flesh and blood people who are your brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, co-workers and neighbors and they love each other and they just want to go through life with someone.”

“One of the beauties of working in radio is the way a whole setting can be richly evoked simply by the addition to the track of a little birdsong and a church bell in the distance.”

Way Littles Whole Church Distance Track Radio Setting Settings Bells Birdsong Church Bells

Author:Peter Blegvad

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