Sentences with phrase «collection plates there»
Maybe atheists should go around with collection plates There are a lot of poor, suffering, hurting people in the world who need help.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
Just as giving an extra hundred dollars to the collection plate is not as good as giving an extra thousand, still both are goods, and there is no immorality in opting out of the heroically generous higher option.
There are too many people who put their dollar in the collection plate every week (or whenever they go to church every month or so) and think that takes care of that.
Christians are foolishly misguided to believe there is something after this life and most are wasting the only life guaranteed for that... it's the gullibility factor at play - exactly what the original con men who wrote the bible played on and exactly what the pastors of today play on - without gullible fools they have empty pews and thus empty collection plates.
Every evening I sit along with whomever wants to join and we quietly watch the sun setting, or the rain coming down; or watch the wind blowing the trees and we discuss the beauty of our surroundings and each in their own quiet thoughts give thanks to whomever or whatever they feel thanks are due... There are no collection plates, no sermons..
«There were also complaints about their priest's refusal to support Cafod [this, Fr Finigan explains, is because of Cafod's support for condoms as a means of combating HIV], his expenditure on traditional vestments and other clerical garb, the absence of a parish council and failure to account to parishioners how money from the collection plate was being spent» [in other words, possible corruption]
There were 20,000 plates in the collection, some of them dating back to 1871, but by 1974 the firm had passed to new owners who wanted to clear their premises of the whole unwieldy lot.
There were therapy dogs and crisis counselors and boxes of tissues that were passed down the aisles like collection plates.
There are 26 plates in this collection, each featuring a letter of the alphabet.
There are LOADS I'd like to choose if given the chance, but what stood out the most was the red Christmas dish and apron collection, with Jesus written on the beautiful mug and plates!