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  • That too has direct financial consequences because in those countries membership of a denomination is a formal matter, registered with the state, which decides whether a proportion of a worshipper's taxes go to his or her church.

    The Catholic celibacy conundrum 2010

  • I say naught of the vast height of your churches, their immoderate length, their superfluous breadth, the costly polishing, the curious carvings and paintings which attract the worshipper's gaze and hinder his attention, and seem to me in some sort a revival of the ancient Jewish rites.

    The singing of Psalms and the Divine Office 2009

  • The first quatrain emphasizes the loss of the worshipper's voice, both individually ("whisper") and as a group (the "chant").

    "The Martyr's Hymn" 2008

  • The first quatrain emphasizes the loss of the worshipper's voice, both individually ("whisper") and as a group (the "chant").

    The Little Professor: 2008

  • Yog-Sothoth worshipper's precocious son a chip off the old block find the blokes from Arkham.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Thing On the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories - H. P. Lovecraft Blue Tyson 2007

  • Occupied with her own affairs, which were complicated by her husband's illness, and perhaps also resenting the falling off in the number of her distant worshipper's epistles, caused by an indisposition in the spring and a visit to Brittany to recuperate, she wrote only once or twice during 1841; and, as chance would have it, these letters were lost, so that, for nearly twelve months, he had no news from her.

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

  • The words of Isaiah, _Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given_ will often come to the worshipper's mind, when he uses her words to express his praise after the 1st Lesson.

    The Prayer Book Explained Percival Jackson

  • Then comes the Du'á, which may be in the worshipper's own words though he usually says [200]: --

    The Faith of Islam Edward Sell

  • While the friar was viewing the building, the rector thought he was contrasting its nakedness with the interior beauty of the Roman Catholic churches, and observed: "You perceive, Mr. O'Leary," said he, "that, different from you, we are very sparing of ornaments in our churches; we have neither paintings nor statuary to attract the worshipper's attention."

    Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell Anonymous

  • Nanda, and the giver of prosperity, the enhancer (of the glory) of (the worshipper's) family, the terrifier of Kansa, and the destroyer of

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

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