church (n.)
- affiliation
- apostleship
- body
- branch
- call
- class
- communion
- community
- compline
- confession
- connection
- creed
- cult
- denomination
- division
- duty
- evensong
- exercises
- faction
- faith
- fellowship
- followers
- group
- ism
- liturgy
- matins
- meeting
- none
- nones
- novena
- office
- offshoot
- order
- organization
- party
- pastorate
- persuasion
- prayer
- priesthood
- prime
- rabbinate
- revival
- schism
- school
- sect
- segment
- service
- sext
- society
- spiritual
- tabernacle
- temple
- tierce
- variety
- version
- vesper
- vespers
- vocation
church (v.)
church (adj.)
He sees that this great roundabout
The world, with all its motley rout,
Church, army, physic, law,
Its customs and its businesses,
Is no concern at all of his,
And says—what says he?—Caw.
Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn.
I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight.
An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am a pepper-corn.
The "why" is plain as way to parish church.
Blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time;
If ever you have look'd on better days,
If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church,
If ever sat at any good man's feast.
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
Who builds a church to God and not to fame,
Will never mark the marble with his name.
There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.
Rom. Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.
Mer. No, 't is not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 't is enough, 't will serve.
But the sound of the church-going bell
These valleys and rocks never heard;
Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell,
Or smiled when a Sabbath appear'd.
