Air Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound the alarm…

— Joseph Hall

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear…

— A. E. Housman

Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.

— George Herbert

“Even the bells from the churches have a conversation, all ringing at once.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the…

— William Faulkner

The bells which toll for mankind are—most of them, anyway—like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it…

— Peter Medawar

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

— Charles Spurgeon

The bells are a very good investment. They never break if they are maintained. I can teach the kids the basics. They may play…

— Dan Gable

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

— Edgar Guest

He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.

— Thomas Brooks