If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

Something as important as Carnival will be a genuine tonic, a balm to the soul of the people here. We deserve the frivolity, given all the rest of what we have to put up with.

The carnival will be back next year, and we're going to have a train that goes around the complex.