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“As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.”

People Mind Church Gossip Idle Steeples Old Churches

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.”

Ifs Hard Earth Church White Cold Stones Lays Spread Snow Smooth Sheets Corpses Gems Spooky Tombstone Crisps Carving Old Churches

Book:The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.”

Men Littles Whole Character Hands Might House Church Interesting Aspect Collections Old Man Worn Spoil Tombs Deserted Interesting Characters Haggard Old Churches

Book:The Old Curiosity Shop

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop

“Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and shattered.”

Poetry Found Church Poet Scripts Broke Candle Bells Tombs Shattered Spats Iconoclasm Old Churches

Book:Trilogy

Source: Trilogy

“The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the old Langham Hotel where Sherlock Holmes once met Moriarty and where this correspondent once shared an office with an 8-foot bathtub.”

House Growth Church Perfect Feet Example Mets Office Hotel Holmes Bathtubs Moriarty Old Churches

Author:Morley Safer

“Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by passing on their life to others and releasing their offspring to form new congregations. Church planting needs to be given priority by old-line denominations.”

Needs Past Spiritual Form Given Church Lines Priorities Passing Passings Grandparent Monument Offspring Congregation Denominations Passing On Old Churches

Author:Eddie Gibbs

“When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston is Fenway Park.”

Thinking Heart Soul States Might House Church Cities Brain Parks Halls Boston Harvard Heart Pounding Old Churches Fenway Park

Author:John Towner Williams