"They aren't really making movies like that anymore," he said, lamenting that the Christian independent film industry long ago turned to "fake action movies" like "The Omega Code," leaving its collection-plate budget, wing-and-a-prayer roots behind. ❋ Steve Dollar (2010)
At the Miami Archdiocese, collection-plate revenues are steady, but assessments that individual parishes pay are slow in coming or are down, and needs are up sharply, resulting in the layoff of 49 of the 182 staffers at its Pastoral Center on Biscayne Boulevard, says spokeswoman Mary Ross Agosta. ❋ Sinfonian (2008)
A real-live Bible-shaking, platitiude-selling, hypocritic, cash, collection-plate (or check) taking, living cesspool of questionable life choices right there, smack dab in the middle of our dresser†¦ †¦ †¦ How much is that doggie in the mirror? “Jimmy says that bisexual plumbers are not a good enough reason to move to San Diego. ††¦ †¦. he said in my case, I†™ d have to go with Roto-rooter. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Emmett Plant is running a collection-plate to pay back the 12-year-old honor student who lives in a New York housing project who was intimidated into turning $2000 over to the RIAA to keep them from suing her for file-sharing. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It had taken every bit of persuasion he had, and ultimately he'd had to point to a miniscule bump in the collection-plate tally that was statistically insignificant, but he'd managed to get Billy to agree to let him have another shot at haranguing the masses. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2005)
The father was respectable and tight, a mortgage fancier and a stern, upright collection-plate passer and forecloser. ❋ Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels (N/A)
Like when I first handed round the collection-plate in our parish church. ❋ Unknown (1928)
Woe unto you, doctors of divinity and Episcopalians, hypocrites! for you drop your checks into the collection-plate and you pay no heed to the really important things in the Bible, which are justice and mercy and faith in goodness. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)
Woe unto you, doctors of divity and Episcopalians, hypocrites! for you drop your checks into the collection-plate and you pay no heed to the really important things in the Bible, which are justice and mercy and faith in goodness. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)
She gave money into Abel Ah Yo's collection-plate, closed up the hula-house, and dismissed the hula dancers to more devious ways of earning a livelihood, shed her bright colors and raiments and flower garlands, and bought a Bible. ❋ Unknown (1918)
Sometimes she wondered how the choir in the Presbyterian church had progressed since she, once the mezzo-soprano soloist, had resigned to sing lullabys to a nameless child, if Andrew Daney still walked on the tips of his shoes when he passed the collection-plate, and if the mortgage on the church had ever been paid. ❋ Unknown (1918)
And in a few minutes Deacon Smith is ruined forever, although the fact of the matter may well have been that he was but counting the money in the collection-plate. ❋ Arthur Cheney Train (1910)
There was a discouraging droop and quaver in the singing, and the mournful-looking deacon who passed the collection-plate seemed inured to disappointment. ❋ David Grayson (1908)
The last extremity was reached when the collection-plate began its rounds; the moderate people threw in pennies, the nobles and the rich contributed silver, but she laid a twenty-mark gold piece upon the book-rest before her with a sounding slap! ❋ Unknown (1879)
The last extremity was reached when the collection-plate began its rounds; the moderate people threw in pennies, the nobles and the rich contributed silver, but she laid ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
Not only that, but they had white shirts and jackets of blue cloth to go to church with on Sunday; and each of them put twopence in the collection-plate just as if they had all been sons of a rich shopkeeper. ❋ William Black (1869)
