“Take it to heart, Mr. Parris. There are many others who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.”
John Proctor
The Crucible (1953)
Context: I have trouble enough without I come five mile to hear him preach only hellfire and bloody damnation. Take it to heart, Mr. Parris. There are many others who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.
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Arthur Miller 147
playwright from the United States 1915–2005Related quotes

“Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.”
Variant: Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

To the 1864 general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as quoted in Abraham Lincoln : A History Vol. 6 (1890) by John George Nicolay and John Hay, Ch. 15, p. 324
1860s

“Staying silent, staying away from him… that was the hardest thing I've ever done.”
Source: The Last Olympian

Mal te perdonarán a ti las horas;
las horas que limando están los días,
los días que royendo están los años.
"De la brevedad engañosa de la vida", line 12, cited from J. M. Cohen (ed.) The Penguin Book of Spanish Verse (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962) p. 278. Translation from the same source.

"The Erosion of God's Word: It's Catastrophic!" http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2014/06/17/the-erosion-of-gods-word-its-catastrophic/, Around the World with Ken Ham (July 17, 2014)
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