The Christianity that cannot get on without a minimum of four thousand five hundred, will give place to something better that can. Carlyle.
The Church is a mere organisation to help a man to fulfil his duties; it is not the source from whence those duties sprung. Ward Beecher.
The Church is the working recognised union of those who by wise teaching guide the souls of men. Carlyle.
The Church! Touching the earth with one 25 small point (the event, viz., at Bethlehem of the year one); springing out of one small seed-grain, rising out therefrom, ever higher, ever broader, high as the heaven itself, broad till it overshadow the whole visible heaven and earth, and no star can be seen but through it. From such a seed-grain so has it grown; planted in the reverences and sacred opulences of the soul of mankind; fed continually by all the noblenesses of forty generations of man. The world-tree of the nations for so long! Carlyle.
The Churchmen fain would kill their Church, / As the Churches have killed their Christ. Tennyson.
The circle of noble-minded people is the most precious of all that I have won. Goethe.
The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude: solitude is within us. Joseph Roux.
The city is recruited from the country. Emerson.
The civil guest / Will no more talk all, than 30 eat all the feast. George Herbert.
The civilised man lives not in wheeled houses. He builds stone castles, plants lands, makes life-long marriage contracts; has long-dated, hundred-fold possessions, not to be valued in the money-market; has pedigrees, libraries, law-codes; has memories and hopes, even for this earth, that reach over thousands of years. Carlyle.