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“Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.”

Giving Night Hours Church Window Silent Dawn Giants Pale Roof Dominion Spooky Pavement Vaults Peeping

Book:Works of Charles Dickens: Dombey and son

Source: Works of Charles Dickens: Dombey and son

“A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.”

Should War Real Form Time Hours Church Written Creation Circumstances Worship Highest Golf Holes Quarters Conferences Eighteen Recreation

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“The Angels shows are really intense. We play for a couple hours at a time. They're very theatrical and full of audience interaction and emotion. I've seen a lot of people crying and stuff. It's a little bit like church, but it's very secular.”

People Littles Play Shows Stuff Bits Hours Church Emotion Audience Cry Couple Little Bit Angel Intense Interaction Secular Theatrical

Author:Tom DeLonge

“Do the Pentecostals look back with shame as they remember when they dwelt across the theological tracks, but with the glory of the Lord in their midst? When they had a normal church life, which meant nights of prayers, followed by signs and wonders, and diverse miracles, and genuine gifts of the Holy Ghost? When they were not clock watchers, and their meetings lasted for hours, saturated with holy power? Have we no tears for these memories, or shame that our children know nothing of such power?”

“It was in this year, 1828, that the standard of "the Christian Party in Politics" was openly unfurled... This was an evident attempt, through the influence of the clergy over the female mind - until this hour lamentably neglected in the United States - to effect a union of Church and State.”

“When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.”

Humans Matter Whole Speak Hours Church Race Moral Issues Human Race Speaks Out Moral Issues

Author:Billy Graham

“There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.”

Should Asks Hours Church Bases Compromise Communion

Book:The Acts of the Apostles

Source: The Acts of the Apostles

“This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.”

Hours Church Doctrine Preserves Justification Begets Cornerstones One Hour

Book:What Luther says: an anthology

Source: What Luther says: an anthology

“In China I told pastors about how, in the West, we have these church buildings and how we go to services each week that last an hour or so. I told them how if we don't like the music or the message then we can go to different buildings and services... They all broke out into laughter. They thought I was the funniest guy they had ever seen.”

Ifs Different Lasts Guy Hours Church Week Building Messages Laughter West China Broke Pastor Church Buildings

Author:Francis Chan

“We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient.”

Ifs Long Art Hours Church Goes On Theater Entertainment Cinema Parks Theme More Time Impatient Gallery Cathedrals Art Galleries Theme Parks Church Service

Author:Michael Huffington

“I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement to the tower Was one resplendent blaze of coloured light.”

Thinking Light Night Friendship Hours Church Dear Towers Basements Dear Friend So Sad Edifice

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“We have not been men of prayer. The spirit of prayer has slumbered among us. The closet has been too little frequented and delighted in. We have allowed business, study or active labor to interfere with our closet-hours. And the feverish atmosphere in which both the church and the nation are enveloped has found its way into our prayer closets.”

Men Way Littles Has Beens Spirit Found Nations Hours Church Prayer Study Labor Active Atmosphere Interfere Closets Our Prayers Delighted

Author:Bonar Law

“Those who marry God can become domesticated too - it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word Love means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and Ave Maria like dearest is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves - it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.”

World Love Mean Together Night Hours Church Common Habit Taste Worship Mass Letters Embrace Lips Phrases Formal Saturday Ceremony Saturday Night Love Means Words Love

Book:A Burnt Out Case

Source: A Burnt Out Case