Quotes about Pew

The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.

It's all right to have our mite boxes for the heathen, and send missionaries to them. They're far away and we don't have to associate with them. But I don't want to have to sit in a pew with a hired boy.

The pew is perhaps the greatest inhibitor of face-to-face fellowship. It is a symbol of lethargy and passivity in the contemporary church and has made corporate worship a spectator sport.

I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.