T. S. Eliot Quotes about Church

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The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

T. S. Eliot

Rocks, Church, Failing

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.524, Faber & Faber

O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it.

T. S. Eliot

Lying, Father, Church

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt