"Broad church" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the celebrated Hugh M'Neile, at Albury for many years, I closed with the Evangelical religion of the good old Low Church type, I have by my life and writings excited against me the theological hatred of High Church, and Broad Church, and No Church, and especially of the Romanizers amongst our Established clergy. Sundry religious newspapers and other periodicals, whose names I will not blazon by recording, have systematically attacked ...
— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... a good stout faith in cold climates, I can tell you," said the colonel. "It helps to keep them warm. The broad church would be too full of draughts up here. They want something snug and tight. Just imagine one of these poor devils listening to a liberal sermon about birds and fruits and flowers and beautiful sentiments, and then driving home over the hills with the ...
— A Chance Acquaintance • W. D. Howells
... to belong to?" asked Mr. Mivers,—"High Church, Low Church, Broad Church, Puseyite Church, Ritualistic Church, or any other Established Church that ...
— Kenelm Chillingly, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... apotheosis of Sunday-school teachers. But Emily, living in this same clerical evangelistic atmosphere, is revolted, forced to the other extreme; and, while sheltering her true opinions from herself under the all-embracing term "Broad Church," we find in her writings no belief so strong as the belief in the present use and glory of life; no love so great as her love for earth—earth the mother and grave; no assertion of immortality, but a deep certainty of rest. There is no note so often struck in all her work, and ...
— Emily Bront • A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson
... einer jeden Seiten sieben; auff deren jeden wieder ein andere Saeule stehet. Der Boden ist mit lauter buntem von Voegeln und anderen Thieren gezierten Marmel auff das schoenste gepflaestert.' (This is a very lofty and broad church (like our churches). It has two rows of marble columns with Corinthian capitals, on either side seven; over each of which stands again another column. The floor is paved in the most beautiful fashion ...
— Byzantine Churches in Constantinople - Their History and Architecture • Alexander Van Millingen |
