National Spiritual Assemblies

Famous quotes containing the words national, spiritual and/or assemblies:

    “Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.”
    —William Cobbett (1762–1835)

    “There is spiritual laughter
    Too hushed to be gay, too high: the happiness
    Of angels.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings.”
    —Garry Wills (b. 1934)