Attention Quote by Jo Walton

He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when…

— Elton John

“In his sermons, each a tapestry of ancient and humanist thought, he'd share with his congregation the fruits of that week's study. He was…

— Anonymous

Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be…

— Sinclair Lewis

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

— Kay Boyle

“I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely to be entirely at home…

— Eudora Welty

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

— Kingsley Amis

“He was of the Old Religion, like nearly all Mackenzies, and wouldn't object to a Catholic ceremony - his faith taught that all paths…

— S.M. Stirling

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“He was riding back through a doorway in time to a place that had nothing to do with the airplanes, and motorized vehicle and…

— James Lee Burke

“A church was only as good or bad as the philosophy that emanated from the pulpit.”

— Erika Johansen

Both learned and unlearned young men seldom go to church, and in general do not attend to their spiritual education, looking upon it as…

— John of Kronstadt

“Now Preacher might manage a bar and hang out with men primarily, but he was unaccustomed to fathers who pushed their children out of…

— Robyn Carr