God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.
In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like milking-stools.
Do not prevent your women from coming to the mosque; but their homes are better for them.
For thousands of years, the most physically imposing buildings on earth were temples, churches, and mosques. But in the 20th century, new houses of worship came to dominate the landscape. Yankee Stadium is the most storied of these contemporary shrines.
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
