Sunday Church Attendance

Famous quotes containing the words sunday, church and/or attendance:

    “that Sunday in July
    when we were young and did not look
    into the abyss,
    that God spot.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “I believe that in this country the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “We, too, had good attendance once,
    Hearers and hearteners of the work;
    Aye, horsemen for companions,
    Before the merchant and the clerk
    Breathed on the world with timid breath.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)