“I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.” OrderChurchPleaseCrowdsHearingAlcoholTiedAlcoholismCocktailsTemperanceCongregationAbstinence Author:Vance Havner
“Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!” HandsSeemsChurchGraceModernDivinePleaseSurvivalTownsRaisedVariousStrikesArchitectureLightningTowersRivalsHere I AmOverlookedDivine GraceForgetfulFrills Author:George Santayana
“When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.” PeopleReligionChurchFeminismPleaseCatholicTablesFingersDiscouragedCatholic ChurchForksObsceneUtensils Author:Robin Morgan
“The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.” MenSaidTwoHelpingHandsReligionNamesCan DoChurchTeachingPleaseLuckChiefsAlmightyIndifferentHands Of God Book:The Sirens of Titan Source: The Sirens of Titan
“I never thought it was right to call up a man and try him because he erred in doctrine, it looks too much like methodism and not like Latter day Saintism. Methodists have creeds which a man must believe or be kicked out of their church. I want the liberty of believing as I please, it feels so good not to be tramelled.” MenWantFeelsTryingBelieveLooksChurchLibertyToo MuchPleaseDoctrineLatterCreedsLatter DaysMethodistsLatter Day Saints Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom's skirt and asked. "Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don't?" At the time, I remember thinking two things: First, I would've knelt down and asked Hannah, "Did I have a light over my head? Please say yes!" I also wondered what Hannah had seen, and whether she had seen it because, like my son, she had a childlike faith.” PeopleThinkingYearsFirstsSaidTwoLightRememberThreeChurchMorningWifeSonMomPleaseDaughterDown AndTwo ThingsSundayMy SonThree YearsPastorSkirtsChildlikeColoradoThree Year OldsChildlike Faith Author:Todd Burpo
“The organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't. So I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. Some people won't understand, but I don't give an account to some people.” PeopleGivingSometimesChurchAudiencePleaseAccountsBoundariesOrganizedLiving My LifeI Live My LifeAudience Of One Author:Anne Graham Lotz
“Sign at a New England church: Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual light is extinguished?” PersonsGodLightLastsChurchPleaseEnglandStupidityPerpetualNew England Author:Dave Barry
“To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not.Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is-the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?” MenWayHas BeensRealityHappensChurchPrayerLossPoorPleaseDisasterInstantSundayPlasticDeitiesUnchanging Book:The Story of an African Farm Source: The Story of an African Farm
“Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.” ShouldSchoolPainJoyChurchPleaseCharityUnhappyNecksSundayBenevolenceYokeSunday School Book:Essays and Lectures Source: Essays and Lectures