Fire-breathing vicar for Pentecost
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QUAINT QUOTES
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
Voltaire Épîtres No 96 ‘À l’auteur du livre des trois imposteurs’
“I have seen nobody since I saw you but persons in orders. My only varieties are vicars, rectors, curates, and every now and then (by way of turbot) an archdeacon.”
Sydney Smith Edinburgh Review ‘Persecuting Bishops’
“Don’t like bishops. Fishy lot. Blessed are the meek my foot! They’re all on the climb. Ever heard of meekness stopping a bishop from becoming a bishop? Nor have I.”
Maurice Bowra, in conversation over lunch at the Reform Club. A bishop was sitting at the next table. From Arthur Marshall Life’s Rich Pageant.
“Under this stone, Reader, survey
Dead Sir John Vanbrugh’s house of clay.
Lie heavy on him, Earth! For he
Laid many heavy loads on thee!”
Abel Evans Epitaph on Sir John Vanbrugh, Architect of Blenheim Palace
NB Sir John Vanbrugh is buried in St Stephen Walbrook church
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
Garrison Keiller from ‘Exiles’ in Leaving Home
“So, Lord, reserve for me a crown
And do not let my shares go down.”
John Betjeman In Westminster Abbey
“On Heaven and Hell:
I have friends in both places.”
Mark Twain
From Mark Twain by Archibald Henderson
“ God can stand being told by Professor Ayer and Marghanita Laski that He doesn’t exist.”
J B Priestley in Listener 1 July 1965
A publisher’s view of the Bible:
“It’s just called The Bible now. We dropped the word ‘Holy’ to give it a more mass-market appeal.”
Attributed to Judith Young
“I am convinced that He does not play dice.”
Albert Einstein in a letter to Max Born (1926)
“The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility ... The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.”
Albert Einstein, from ‘Physics and Reality’ in the Franklin Institute Journal March 1936
“That little man ... he says women can’t have as much rights as men, cause Christ wasn’t a woman. Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with Him.”
Speech at a Women’s Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio 1851
Voltaire Épîtres No 96 ‘À l’auteur du livre des trois imposteurs’
“I have seen nobody since I saw you but persons in orders. My only varieties are vicars, rectors, curates, and every now and then (by way of turbot) an archdeacon.”
Sydney Smith Edinburgh Review ‘Persecuting Bishops’
“Don’t like bishops. Fishy lot. Blessed are the meek my foot! They’re all on the climb. Ever heard of meekness stopping a bishop from becoming a bishop? Nor have I.”
Maurice Bowra, in conversation over lunch at the Reform Club. A bishop was sitting at the next table. From Arthur Marshall Life’s Rich Pageant.
“Under this stone, Reader, survey
Dead Sir John Vanbrugh’s house of clay.
Lie heavy on him, Earth! For he
Laid many heavy loads on thee!”
Abel Evans Epitaph on Sir John Vanbrugh, Architect of Blenheim Palace
NB Sir John Vanbrugh is buried in St Stephen Walbrook church
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
Garrison Keiller from ‘Exiles’ in Leaving Home
“So, Lord, reserve for me a crown
And do not let my shares go down.”
John Betjeman In Westminster Abbey
“On Heaven and Hell:
I have friends in both places.”
Mark Twain
From Mark Twain by Archibald Henderson
“ God can stand being told by Professor Ayer and Marghanita Laski that He doesn’t exist.”
J B Priestley in Listener 1 July 1965
A publisher’s view of the Bible:
“It’s just called The Bible now. We dropped the word ‘Holy’ to give it a more mass-market appeal.”
Attributed to Judith Young
“I am convinced that He does not play dice.”
Albert Einstein in a letter to Max Born (1926)
“The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility ... The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.”
Albert Einstein, from ‘Physics and Reality’ in the Franklin Institute Journal March 1936
“That little man ... he says women can’t have as much rights as men, cause Christ wasn’t a woman. Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with Him.”
Speech at a Women’s Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio 1851
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