Christ Church

Famous quotes containing the words christ and/or church:

    He weren’t no saint—but at Jedgment
    I’d run my chance with Jim,
    ‘Longside of some pious gentlemen
    That wouldn’t shook hands with him.
    He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing,—
    And went for it, thar an’ then:
    And Christ ain’t a-goin’ to be too hard
    On a man that died for me.
    John Milton Hay (1838–1905)

    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)