A Commonplace Book

Category: churches...

  • attending church in an African village
  • living in a converted church on Block Island
  • the playing of the church organ or being the soloist for the church choir
  • the midnight church service on Christmas Eve or sunrise service on Easter morning
  • going to church to light a candle for someone
  • singing all the hymns
  • The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached - and against which he taught his disciples to fight. (F. Nietzsche)
  • The Church knew what the Psalmist knew. Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. (I. Stravinsky)

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