Top 44 Quotes About Pews
#1. Y'know, if those pews reclined, and the priests gave the Raiders scores I'd go to church every Sunday.
George Lopez
#2. Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.
Daniel Woodrell
#3. The TV shouted an old black-and-white film he didn't recognize, wheelchairs facing it like church pews.
Sere Prince Halverson
#4. Sadly, the doctrinal ignorance in the pulpits of today is being replicated in the doctrinal ignorance and indifference of the pews, and the people are not even seeing the picture, much less getting it.
Albert Mohler
#5. Women were expected to sit in the pews, receiving messages from men in the pulpit. Their role was to recognize God in their pastor, not to expect or demand that he recognize God in them.
Melissa V. Harris-Perry
#6. But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.
Polly Toynbee
#7. It is often the parishioners, the men and women in the pews, who set the tone.
Andrew Pettegree
#8. The weight of time and history felt profound in the quiet night in a tiny chapel with several wooden pews and a granite altar. If I were a religious man, someplace like this might move me to speak with God.
Bonnie Dee
#9. We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.
John Stott
#10. No one has a calling to sit in the pews of the church
Sunday Adelaja
#11. The Catholic Church made a serious mistake when they started caring about how many people are in the pews.
Michel Templet
#12. Shopkeepers - the great landed and commercial interests - regularly sat and slept, and where the two publicans occupied pews, but seldom made even the pretence of worshipping.
Thomas Hughes
#13. The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.
Charlie W Shedd
#14. (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
#15. 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
#16. Familiar mahogany-stained pews with red velvet cushions sucked the light from the interior.
Sally Kilpatrick
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Church and court, it's all the same - pews, a throne, a God, the accused.
Mitchell S. Jackson
#20. 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
#21. Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.
Bill Hybels
#22. I had no one to hold. What if this was my life, attending weddings, sitting in pews, listening to I do's, perpetually wishing for someone to share my life with? Where the fuck was the alcohol?
Stephanie Klein
#23. Or maybe I was just hungry. I'd forgotten to eat the day before, and possibly what I should do was go back to my hotel and sit down to a few duck's legs instead of falling down between the pews in an attack of mystical hypoglycemia.
Michel Houellebecq
#24. We Christians are bound hands and feet, sitting down in the pews instead of going out to explore the earth for the Son of God, king of kings and the Lord of Lords
Sunday Adelaja
#25. Everyone always sat in the same place. It just kind of happens. We're creatures of habit. There were families who sat in the same pew, generation upon generation. If I didn't know better, I'd think the people of Levan bequeathed their pews in their wills.
Amy Harmon
#26. 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
#27. Almost succeeded in single-handedly shooing the faithful out of their pews in the French cathedrals. Unfortunately for him, this notion of God the Creator is nearly as rampant in the world today as it was when the first prophet sat down to put words in God's mouth.
Jesse Bering
#28. A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.
John Owen
#29. When will we realize that one of the greatest mission fields in the West is the pews of our churches every Sunday morning?
Paul David Washer
#30. Write on a screen that has no Internet access.
Bruno Heller
#31. An intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition to study and reflections, life itself serves as a source.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#32. Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
Steven Van Zandt
#33. The cost of infrastructure development to host a mega-event can be offset against economic growth over future decades.
Richard Attias
#34. Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
George Washington
#35. Something that is very difficult to translate is the humor.
Luis Negron
#36. If so, we might be able to use them for rapid travel around the galaxy or travel back in time. Of course, we have not seen anyone from the future (or have we?) but I discuss a possible explanation for this.
Stephen Hawking
#37. Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.
Herb Ritts
#39. Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers have paid more than their fair share, and our nation owes them and their children, and their children's children, a lifetime of healthy choices and second chances. That would be responsible.
Kiese Laymon
#40. I played ball for the Hollywood Blues of the Pacific Coast League, and I thought I was going to be a major leaguer. But I was the only one who seemed to think so.
Robert Preston
#41. Roofies aren't a myth, he said, but studies suggest the fear outpaces the incidence. Turns out, "being roofied" often doesn't involve roofies at all. People just don't realize how common it is to experience a blackout.
Sarah Hepola
#42. The most important initiative you could take to improve the world economy would be to stabilize the dollar-euro rate.
Robert Mundell
#43. People are like tea bags, you don't know their strength until they're in hot water.
J. Mason Williams
#44. I regret that I should leave this world without again beholding him.
James Monroe
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