Parishioners Quotes

“churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“His pleasure of choice, whenever he came into the Punchbowl and Pineapple, was a large nugget of Holland candy, the crystallized sugar containing glittering fragments of angelica, pistachio, ginger, and chocolate--- treasures to be mined from their sweet bedrock by a determined tongue. It is a confection for a man who takes a child's delight in the world, and I envied Twiselton his optimism about human nature, even as I scorned it.”
― Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Art of a Lie