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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

“I'm Catholic, and my wife is Catholic. We're very religious. We go to church. We pray every night. We pray at dinner. To me, Catholics regard themselves as very Christian. Some Christians view Catholics as not necessarily Christian.”

Christian Night Church Religious Views Christianity Wife Praying Regard Catholic Dinner My Wife Every Night

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that was the beginning, in a place called Bostwick, Florida, in northern Florida, in a little tiny church, and on a cold night, about 40 people. And I was so nervous.”

People Firsts Littles Remember Night Church Four Minutes Cold Ten Tiny Nervous Florida Sermons Cold Night

Author:Billy Graham

“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?”

“A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.”

World Looks Whole Night Belief Church Dark Prayer Meetings Winter Whole World Dull Superstitions Depressing Wednesday Methodists Prayer Meeting Dark Depressing Wednesday Nights

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“The first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the people, who walk through the dark night with them, who know how to dialogue and to descend themselves into their people's night, into the darkness, but without getting lost. The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.”

“I try to sit down at night before they go to bed and read the Bible with them and do little devotionals and pray with them. I think if you instill it in them when they are young, they'll remember when they grow up. I raise them in church. When the doors are open, I want to be there. My kids love to go. So does my wife.”

Ifs Thinking Want Trying Littles Doe Kids Remember Young Night Grows Church Growing Up Wife Doors Praying Bed Raises My Wife Remember When Instill Kids Love

Author:Andy Pettitte

“When I was thirty years old and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness, in which I lay three days and three nights; and on the fourth night I took all my rites of Holy Church, and weened not to have lived till day.”

Years Night Three Church Half Holy Lays Thirty Sickness Fourth Thirty Years Rite Thirty Years Old

Book:The Showings of Divine Love

Source: The Showings of Divine Love

“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)

“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

“I was raised in the church by my grandmother who made sure we went to Sunday School, read the Bible and went to church every Sunday. Every night we read Bible stories before we went to bed.”

Made Stories School Night Church Bed Raised Grandmother Sunday Every Night My Grandmother Sunday School Bible Stories

Author:Torii Hunter

“The sign of the cross is the most terrible weapon against the devil. Thus the Church wishes not only that we have it continually in front of our minds to recall to us just what our souls are worth and what they cost Jesus Christ, but also that we should make it at every juncture ourselves: when we go to bed, when we awaken during the night, when we get up, when we begin any action, and, above all, when we are tempted.”

Should Mind Soul Action Night Jesus Wish Christ Church Fronts Terrible Cost Bed Weapons Devil Jesus Christ Crosses Get Up Recalls Tempted Juncture

Author:John Vianney