George Eliot Quotes About Church

• Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Children, Teaching

• You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

  George Eliot

  Fear, Eye, People

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

• As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

  George Eliot

  Gossip, People, Mind

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

• Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!

  George Eliot

  Book, Eye, Intelligent

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.113

• the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.

  George Eliot

  Church, Watches, Band

  George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.42, 谷月社

• When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Mind, Religion

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.218, Penguin

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