Quotes About Pew

I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother.

Hers was simply not a pew shaped spine.

I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew.

The Pew Biomedical Scholars are a synergistic community whose connections are reinforced over the years.

I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.

A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.

I believe there's somebody like him in every pew—asking a simple question, needing a simple answer.

At last, giving me the boat's sail for a bed, he stretched himself out on the jagged rocks, and slept soundly as the unsanctified in a comfortable pew of a church; --I wish the benches were softer, and the cushions higher, as then more people might be tempted to take a nap; it is my only reason for never going.

It's all right to have our mite boxes for the heathen, and send missionaries to them. They're far away and we don't have to associate with them. But I don't want to have to sit in a pew with a hired boy.

More than 20% of the victims interviewed by Pew did confront their abusers and most reported that doing so improved the situation.

Leadership never ascends from the pew to the pulpit, but invariably descends from the pulpit to the pew.

Paul Theroux was sitting in the pew (at Bruce Chatwin's memorial service) behind him. "I suppose we'll be here for you next week, Salman," he said.

The pew is perhaps the greatest inhibitor of face-to-face fellowship. It is a symbol of lethargy and passivity in the contemporary church and has made corporate worship a spectator sport.

America has already taken in more than one-quarter of Mexico's entire population, according to the Pew Research Center's analysis of census data.

A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.

I begin to suspect, said the curate, after a pause, that the common transactions of life are the most sacred channels for the spread of the heavenly leaven. There was ten times more of the divine in selling her that gown as you did, in the name of God, than in taking her into your pew and singing out of the same hymn-book with her.

The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.

We're not just associating with people more like ourselves, we're actively breaking ties with everyone else, especially on social media. A 2014 Pew research study found that liberals are more likely than conservatives to block or unfriend people with whom they disagreed, but mostly because conservatives already tended to have fewer people with whom they disagreed in their online social circles in the first place.

tolerated playfulness at church not at all. At every Mass, she wore her game face for a crucifixion as though she were an actual eyewitness to the death of Jesus each time she knelt in her pew.

In space, everyone can hear you go pew pew .

In spite of what the monks say, you can meet God without getting up early. You can meet God lounging in the pew. The hardship is a man-made device because man cannot exist without passion. Religion is somewhere between fear and sex. And God? truly? In his own right, without our voices speaking for him? Obsessed, I think, but not passionate.

The reverend insists we occupy the first pew. He rang us up not long ago, tipsy-- he's a tippler-- saying that our faces brought him closer to God. And it's true, we're terribly good-looking people.

Bless Her Front Pew Heart ~ Marjorie

As often as possible, Mrs Smythe would occupy a pew in the parish church and nod approvingly as the vicar sermonised on the evils of the world. From time to time he would catch her eye and beam a smile. He approved of her doings, being quite a champion of such Muscular Christianity.