Top 23 Quotes About Church Pews
#1. The TV shouted an old black-and-white film he didn't recognize, wheelchairs facing it like church pews.
Sere Prince Halverson
#2. That's how the European tribes operate, she said. If they can't control it, they destroy it.
Colson Whitehead
#4. I'm aware families sit around the telly to watch 'Vera', which is making entertainment out of murder. But I don't enjoy reading about people's pain. I tend to put myself in that position, and it's not somewhere I want to be.
Ann Cleeves
#6. You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of all individuals. I am constantly disappointed by how little we expect of ourselves and of the world.
Hanif Kureishi
#7. No one has a calling to sit in the pews of the church
Sunday Adelaja
#8. The Catholic Church made a serious mistake when they started caring about how many people are in the pews.
Michel Templet
#9. The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.
Charlie W Shedd
#10. (Pastor Chuck) Smith told his elders in no uncertain terms that if the church had to turn away young people because of bare feet and clothes that they would be better off ripping up the carpet and replacing the pews with steel folding chairs.
Larry Eskridge
#11. According to the historian William H. McNeil, European churches did not have pews until sometime in the eighteenth century. People stood or milled around, creating a very different dynamic than we find in today's churches, where people are expected to spend most of their time sitting.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#12. Lord, save the Church from desiring to have pews, choirs, organs, or instrumental music, and a congregational ministry, like other heathen Churches around them!
Peter Cartwright
#13. The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#14. There are no inherent limitations to the medium. There are just differences.
Bill Henson
#15. Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein
#16. ...shame spreads through his body like a drop of red dye in water.
Zak Ebrahim
#17. To think there are men who dare so defile a church, a sacred sanctuary dedicated to God. We have to hold up our skirts and walk tiptoe, so covered is the floor, the aisle and pews, with the dark shower of tobacco juice.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#18. Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.
Maya Angelou
#19. We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.
Leonard Ravenhill
#20. Church and court, it's all the same - pews, a throne, a God, the accused.
Mitchell S. Jackson
#21. Y'know, if those pews reclined, and the priests gave the Raiders scores I'd go to church every Sunday.
George Lopez
#22. When I was growing up, I grew up in church
my father was a pastor
so when I was growing up in Trinidad, I'd close all the windows in the church and go in the church every day after school and get a little microphone and pretend all these people were in the pews, and I would sing to them.
Heather Headley
#23. I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.
J. F. Powers
