#church

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#church

Sometimes it's the little things that count most. ↗

— Alexandra Adornetto

#church

You stand out like a fart in a church. ↗

— James Patterson

#maximum-ride #the-final-warning #church

He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary people. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#gansey #lol #striding #church

Will-," Tessa began but it was too late, Church made a yowling noise at being woken, and lashed out with his claws. Will began to swear. Tessa left, unable to hide the slightest of smiles as she went. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#infernal-devices #tessa #will #church

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#church

Don’t you think we’re going to go to hell for this?” asked Lissa. He reached out and touched her face, trailing his fingers along her cheek and neck and down to the top of her silky shirt. She breathed heavily at that touch, at the way it could be so gentle and small, yet evoke such a strong passion within her. “For this?” He played with the shirt’s edge, letting his finger just barely brush inside of it. “No,” she laughed. “For this.” She gestured around the attic. “This is a church. We shouldn’t be doing this kind of, um, thing up here.” “Not true,” he argued. Gently, he pushed her onto her back and leaned over her. “The church is downstairs. This is just storage. God won’t mind. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#lissa-dragomir #church

The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#grace #sin #church

She'd barely covered up her long, tan legs in a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church on Sunday just to thank God for creating her. - Beau ↗

— Abbi Glines

#beau #river #church

Orthodoxy is marked by sobriety, not by emotional enthusiasm. It is also marked by a quite “ordinary” persistence in living the humble, consistent life of Christ, not by seeking out extraordinary experiences, especially supernatural ones. ↗

— Andrew Stephen Damick

#christianity #eastern-orthodox-church #orthodox-christianity #orthodoxy #experience