“But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.” PeopleChurchPositionMetsEnglandExtraordinaryArroganceSignificancePresumptuousSmugnessChurch Of England Author:Rowan Atkinson
“It is God’s will through His wonderful grace, that the prayers of His saints should be one of the great principal means of carrying on the designs of Christ’s kingdom in the world. When God has something very great to accomplish for His church, it is His will that there should precede it the extraordinary prayers of His people; as is manifest by Ezekiel 36:37. and it is revealed that, when God is about to accomplish great things for His church, He will begin by remarkably pouring out the spirit of grace and supplication (see Zechariah 12:10).” PeopleWorldShouldMeanSpiritChristChurchPrayerGraceWonderfulDesignExtraordinarySaintAccomplishGods WillKingdomsGreat ThingsManifestPrincipalPouringCarrying OnSupplicationEzekiel Author:Jonathan Edwards
“The second rector of [St. John's in] Providence was blown out of church one Sunday by 'an extraordinary gust of wind,' and the people, welcoming this ejection as an act of heaven, refused to let him in again.” PeopleHeavenChurchWindExtraordinaryWelcomeSundayProvidence Author:George Hodges (theologian)