Jeff Fisher

I had this moment in church, which I think really turned me off. I was 7 or 8 years old and I was sitting at church, and we happened to be playing with the sunlight that was coming down from the stained glass window, and the monsignor came down to the pew and grabbed us by our neck collars and said, 'I'll deal with you.

American Coach

Pierre Loti

I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother.

French Writer

Polly Toynbee

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

English Journalist

Jim Elliot

How wonderful to know that Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral, but that it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace.

American Clergyman

Del Shores

So many kids are still sitting in pews being told they are not worthy of God's love. 'Sissies' will show them they are not alone, and I hope that healing will follow.

American Director

Bill Hybels

Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.

Philip Yancey

When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!

American Author

Beth Moore

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

Billy Graham

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

Miranda Lambert

My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.

American Musician

Pew specifically refers to seating in a religious context, mainly churches.

Church Furniture

Most pews are made of wood, tying to traditional church designs.

Material Commonality

Unlike chairs, pews are often fixed to the floor, immovable.

Fixed Seating

Pews refer to both individual benches and collective seating areas in a church.

Grouped Seating

Pews can signify a family's social status or regular attendance within a community.

Socio-religious Symbol

As an interjection, 'pew' is a casual, slang expression for indicating disgust.

Slang Disgust

Though rare, 'pew' can refer to the intensity of sound, used more in specialized fields.

Sound Intensity

 They come there, many times their parents -- you can't see it, but there's a church pew that I bought in a Berkeley auction right there -- the parents will sometimes watch while their kids are being tutored. So that was the basis of it, was one-on-one attention. And we found ourselves full every day with kids.

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 all of the trees on the sacred ground of the churchyard to remind people that they are protecting not only the nave and the Holy Scriptures and the pews and the pulpit but also the fact that the trees and the biota in their own churchyards are deserving of mindfulness

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 The first time I uttered a prayer was in a glass-stained cathedral. I was kneeling long after the congregation was on its feet, dip both hands into holy water, trace the trinity across my chest, my tiny body drooping like a question mark all over the wooden pew.

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 on the last night of our lives. Packed into a room just like this, but with creaky wooden pews draped in worn-down red fabric, with an organ to my left and a choir at my back and a baptism pool built into the wall behind them.

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 evidence of popular opinions migration from pulpit and pew to cafe, salon, and press. It even has recipes. It's also irrepressibly human, as you can tell from Diderot's entry about a plant named aguaxima.

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 up as a model of how to build green from the ground up the floors are made of recycled concrete fly ash from power plants is part of the mix the oak pews and other would work come from a local