Visible Church

Famous quotes containing the words visible and/or church:

    “When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.”
    —George Carey (b. 1935)