Friday night Quote by Phyllis Goldstein

“The distinc­tives of the Christian faith cannot be bartered for the blandishments of a fashionable bonhomie.”

— Philip Edgcumbe Hughes

“It is essential to realize that the Christian community in the past was not a pious ideal, but a juridical fact which underlay the…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

“Sabbath-days. For the law commanded them to abstain from every servile work, that is, from all grasping after wealth which is procured by trading…

— The Church Fathers

“will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious, and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religious. Nothing…

— Mark Twain

“I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous.…

— Mark Twain

“Organized religion was not important to him, he said. It was more important how people behaved in their daily lives than what they did…

— Diane Chamberlain

“a post-agrarian religion in which literal sacrifice had been replaced by symbolic; they opened their meals with a re-enactment in effigy of that, then…

— Neal Stephenson

“the law commanded them to abstain from every servile work, that is, from all grasping after wealth which is procured by trading and by…

— The Church Fathers

“In Port William, more than anyplace else I had been, this religion that scorned the beauty and goodness of this world was a puzzle…

— Wendell Berry

“Religious leaders who continue mechanically to expound the Scriptures without regard to the current religious situation are no better than the scribes and lawyers…

— a.w. tozer

“The corrupt are into rituals, whereas the virtuous are spiritual.”

— Abhaidev

“Too much of the old Puritan spirit exists in these parts to the present hour; but its influence has not tended, that I know,…

— Charles Dickens