A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangero...us as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American autho...rities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of sacralizing person and community.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means--one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of f...ortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voi...ce breaking the solemn silence of night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That...'s my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »