CHURCH in Classic Quotes

1  Zeebo lined On Jordan's Stormy Banks, and church was over.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

2  They parted and made a small pathway to the church door for us.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

3  He's a member of Calpurnia's church, and Cal knows his family well.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

4  Church was in the Quarters outside the southern town limits, across the old sawmill tracks.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

5  Don't pay no 'tention to Lula, she's contentious because Reverend Sykes threatened to church her.'

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

6  At the church door, while she paused to talk with Zeebo and his family, Jem and I chatted with Reverend Sykes.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

7  With that, Calpurnia led us to the church door where we were greeted by Reverend Sykes, who led us to the front pew.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

8  The Methodists were trying to pay off their church mortgage, and had challenged the Baptists to a game of touch football.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10

9  The church was becoming stuffy, and it occurred to me that Reverend Sykes intended to sweat the amount due out of his flock.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

10  Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

11  In the interval between Sunday School and Church when the congregation stretched its legs, I saw Atticus standing in the yard with another knot of men.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 15

12  Behind the rough oak pulpit a faded pink silk banner proclaimed God Is Love, the church's only decoration except a rotogravure print of Hunt's The Light of the World.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

13  It was an ancient paint-peeled frame building, the only church in Maycomb with a steeple and bell, called First Purchase because it was paid for from the first earnings of freed slaves.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

14  Nobody had occasion to pass by except at Christmas, when the churches delivered baskets, and when the mayor of Maycomb asked us to please help the garbage collector by dumping our own trees and trash.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17

15  Reverend Sykes then called on the Lord to bless the sick and the suffering, a procedure no different from our church practice, except Reverend Sykes directed the Deity's attention to several specific cases.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

16  They did not go to church, Maycomb's principal recreation, but worshiped at home; Mrs. Radley seldom if ever crossed the street for a mid-morning coffee break with her neighbors, and certainly never joined a missionary circle.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

17  When Uncle Jack caught me, he kept me laughing about a preacher who hated going to church so much that every day he stood at his gate in his dressing-gown, smoking a hookah and delivering five-minute sermons to any passers-by who desired spiritual comfort.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9