“I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball." "Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.” PeopleHumansChildrenLittlesEyeAbleIndividualChurchSleepBaseballDrinkingBoredHuman LifeEnjoymentConfinedFathom Author:Criss Jami
“Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.” HomeUsedFatherChurchSleepDadAdultsMy DadFathers DayNursery Author:Vance Havner
“America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.” YearsHas BeensFunnyAmericaChurchSleepSituationNervousTenseCan't Sleep Author:Norman Vincent Peale
“It's just that the churches have been sleeping for a long time. A lot of people argue that the churches are even dead. I don't believe they're dead, but they've been sleeping, but they, I hope, will wake up, and that's one of my tasks is to make sure they wake up as much as they do before I die.” PeopleBelieveLongHas BeensDiesChurchSleepLong TimeTasksWake UpDon't BelieveArguingBefore I Die Author:Cornel West
“Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat.” MenHandsChurchSleepWhiteEnemyWorstFieldsBedRingsEaseEncountersHarvestAltarsStretchingWheatWorst EnemyIndolence Author:Frederic Dan Huntington
“It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God may wake someday and take offense, or the waking God may draw us out to where we can never return.” ShouldMayChurchSleepIssuesReturnDrawsMadnessHatsSomedayWakingCrashOffenseSignalsStrawsVelvetHelmetLashesFlareStraw Hats Book:The Abundance Source: The Abundance
“The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.” WorldNationsChurchSleepEternalLipsDestroyedTemplesCivilizedSuperstitionsEternal LifeApostlesAwakened Author:John Strachan