National Evangelical Friends

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

    “The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.”
    —Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)

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

    “Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)