Dreams Quote by Francis Spufford

“I didn’t like churches – I never had. They were creepy places. Eerie. I always felt like I was being watched by someone I…

— Nicola Haken

“We must go alone. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As I read out the text, through a half-opened window near me, two large withered oak-leaves silently floated into the little church in the…

— Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

“Sometimes the church isn´t the place where we meet Jesus, it´s the place where we hide ourselves from the world.”

— Alin Sav

I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.

— Ferdinand Mount

“Silence is the sublime refuge of your divine.”

— Bryant McGill

“Regular church attenders tend to come to our places of worship to feel better, not to be hit with the unfamiliar, the uncomfortable, the…

— Mike Yankoski

“the silence of God is God.”

— Carolyn Forché

“No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?”

— Jonathan L. Howard

“There's nothing more frightening than dead silence; I can't stand it. When it's quiet, that's when the bad memories and the awful thoughts ring…

— C.M. Stunich

“Not a minister," he said, "but I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like…

— Tim O'Brien

“The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear the voice…

— James Rozoff