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“I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.”

House Church Cities Flow Rivers London

Book:The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

“The church of the elect, which is partly militant on earth, and partly triumphant in heaven, resembles a city built on both sides of a river. There is but the stream of death between grace and glory. Death, to God's people, is but a ferry-boat.”

People Earth Heaven Sides Church Cities Grace Glory Built Rivers Boat Streams Both Sides Triumphant Militant Ferry

Book:The works of Augustus M. Toplady

Source: The works of Augustus M. Toplady

“The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I; Nor church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high. But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river; And the lamp of my soul is alight with love, for life, and the world, and the Giver.”

World Way Soul Religion Church My Own Millions Bears Thousand Rivers My Soul Love Life Creeds Lamps Pointing Floats Giver Bosoms Spires

Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“There are knives that glitter like altars In a dark church Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile To be healed. There's a woden block where bones are broken, Scraped clean--a river dried to its bed”

Church Dark Broken Bed Rivers Clean Killing Bones Block Knives Altars Healed Glitter Cripples Imbeciles

Author:Charles Simic

“Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.”

Humans Facts Church Human Beings Wonderful Rivers Towns Train

Book:Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography