Regard your servant s prayer and his plea, O LORD my God, heeding the cry and the prayer that your servant prays to you today; tha...t your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you said, My name shall be there, that you may heed the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself a...gainst me; then I would have hid myself from him: But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling things there; and he said, "It is written, My house shall... be a house of prayer'; but you have made it a den of robbers."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a Kelton church, when a heated argument once began at morning services, a devout old deacon arose from his seat in the 'amen co...rner' and announced he was going to do for the church what the devil had never done--leave it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For your God of dream or devil You will answer, not to me.... Talk about the pews and steeples And the Cash that goes therewith! But the souls of Christian peoples . . . Chuck it, Smith!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by inte...rnal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Et Saint Apollinaire, raide et ascétique, Vieille usine désaffectée de Dieu, tient encore... Dans ses pierres éecroulantes la forme précise de Byzance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The street... is as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »