Eastern Orthodox Churches

Famous quotes containing the words eastern, orthodox and/or churches:

    “The more important the title, the more self-important the person, the greater the amount of time spent on the Eastern shuttle, the more suspicious the man and the less vitality in the organization.”
    —Jane O’Reilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 5 (1980)

    “If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
    You may get a bland smile from these sages;
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    Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)