The Anglican Church is marked by the grace and good sense of its forms, by the manly grace of its clergy. The gospel it preaches i...s, "By taste are ye saved." ... It is not in ordinary a persecuting church; it is not inquisitorial, not even inquisitive, is perfectly well bred and can shut its eyes on all proper occasions. If you let it alone, it will let you alone. But its instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am a Wasp only in the genetic sense; the P does not quite apply. As an Episcopalian I am technically an Anglican Catholic, meani...ng that I have a real feel for theological dottiness untainted by deeper questions of religious belief. I have no religious beliefs to speak of, but I stand four-square with the Highs against the Lows on Latin and incense, and I will go to bat for transubstantiation even though it means nothing to me one way or the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was the rector's son, born to the anglican order, Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor;... The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasona...bly responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute--a white skin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past,... A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life: Such a Way as gives us breath:... Such a Truth as ends all strife: Such a Life as killeth death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »