CHURCH in Classic Quotes

1  He liked to be by himself in church.

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

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

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

3  I told him in detail about our trip to church with Calpurnia.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 14

4  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

5  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

6  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

7  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

8  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

9  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

10  Sometimes a baby would cry out fretfully, and a child would scurry out, but the grown people sat as if they were in church.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 21

11  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

12  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

13  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

14  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

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