“To think there are men who dare so defile a church, a sacred sanctuary dedicated to God. We have to hold up our skirts and walk tiptoe, so covered is the floor, the aisle and pews, with the dark shower of tobacco juice.” ThinkingMenChurchDarkWalksSacredDareCoveredDedicatedShowersJuiceTobaccoSanctuarySkirtsAisleTiptoes Author:Mary Boykin Chesnut
“How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.” PeopleSpiritSocialChristChurchPrayerColdCriticismMeetingsDareGet UpFew WordsPrayer Meeting Book:Secret Power Source: Secret Power
“The usual struggle squeezing my bloated Citroën, absurdly named “Picasso,” in or out of any old Italian town. I should be taking a year over this and doing it on a donkey. Eventually found the road to the church of the Madonna of San Biagio, a foursquare temple sitting all alone in the plain. Sangallo's fantasy of the Doric order in honey-colored sandstone, with shell-niches, rosettes, oculi under heavy entablatures. Any one ignorant of geometry scarcely dare enter this shrine to number, measure, and weight. So clean and crisp I could eat it for breakfast.” ShouldYearsOrderFoundChurchNumbersFantasyStruggleSittingWeightTownsCleanDareHeavyIgnorantTemplesBreakfastItalianHoneyUsualShellsGeometryNicheAll AloneCrispsDonkeyShrinesSqueezingFoursquareSandstone Author:Joscelyn Godwin