Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Moving, Home, School

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.14, Faber & Faber

• They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Pyramids, Pyramid Schemes, Church

  Barbara Kingsolver (2012). “Flight Behaviour”, p.21, Faber & Faber

• (on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Church, Asparagus, Aphrodisiac

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.27, Faber & Faber

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