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“The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.”

People Problem Church Empty Filled Emptiness

Author:Charlie W Shedd

“The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science: it is however certain that the larger portion of these ill-remunerated offices have been filled by clergymen.”

Has Beens Certain Church Office Filled University Ill Connected Appropriate Portions Clergymen Professorship

Book:The Exposition of 1851, Or, Views of the Industry, the Science, and the Government, of England

Source: The Exposition of 1851, Or, Views of the Industry, the Science, and the Government, of England

“I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it -- filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction.”

Ideas Used Church Religious Greater Stupid Periods Concepts Filled Terror Intense Ministers Everlasting Extinction Visiting Sixteen Never Ending Banquets Everlasting Life

Book:East Side Story: A Novel

Source: East Side Story: A Novel

“It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled with a great number of persons of either sex who had devoted themselves to the profession of perpetual chastity.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some friends and worship with them.”

Wanted Church Worship Argument Hatred Filled Petty

Author:Francis Chan