George Edmund Street quotes

“In a town church the right place for the admission of light.”
-- George Edmund Street

#Light Quotes #Church Quotes #Towns Quotes

“I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.”
-- George Edmund Street

#Country Quotes #Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“An absolutely different and distinctive character.”
-- George Edmund Street

#Character Quotes #Different Quotes

“It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.”
-- George Edmund Street

#Design Quotes #Way Quotes #Execution Quotes

“The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.”
-- George Edmund Street

#Country Quotes #Taken Quotes #Men Quotes

“The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.6, Delphi Classics

“Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.”

“With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.”

“The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!”

“I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.”

“I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of my father and mother, and the power of the mass action of the church.”

“I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.”

“Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.”

“Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.”

“Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.”