National Evangelical Friends

Famous quotes containing the words national, evangelical and/or friends:

    “Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores; let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God’s right to come.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “Those friends have left.
    Only stumps remain
    in the thickets
    and we’ve grown old, besides.
    Love’s been cut off
    at the roots.”
    —Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)