Quotes about Tents

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!

Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

The church is compared to tents because it has no solid structure in the world.

A church which pitches its tents without constantly looking out for new horizons, which does not continually strike camp, is being untrue to its calling. . . . [We must] play down our longing for certainty, accept what is risky, and live by improvisation and experiment.

Christendom and the theological world were always ill-advised in thinking it their duty for some reason or other, either of enthusiasm or of theological conception, to pitch their tents in opposition to reason.