“If you're looking for the worst people, you'll find them all in church on Sunday mornings.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Se cerchi le persone peggiori, le trovi tutte in chiesa la domenica mattina.
Source: prevale.net
“Most churches don’t have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.”
Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 175
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