The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday. Things must not be done in him which are venial in the week-day classes. H...e is paid for this business of leading a stricter life than other people. It is his raison d'être.... This is why the clergyman is so often called a "vicar"Mhe being the person whose vicarious goodness is to stand for that of those entrusted to his charge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just before reaching the lighthouse, we saw the sun set in the Bay,--for standing on that narrow cape was, as I have said, like be...ing on the deck of a vessel, or rather at the masthead of a man-of-war, thirty miles at sea, though we knew that at the same moment the sun was setting behind our native hills, which were just below the horizon in that direction. This sight drove everything else quite out of our heads, and Homer and the Ocean came in again with a rush,-- Ev d' epes' Okeanoi lampron phaos eelioio, the shining torch of the sun fell into the ocean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
La foi consiste à croire ce que la raison ne croit pas ... Il ne suffit pas qu'une chose soit possible pour la croire. Faith cons...ists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe ... It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My ghostly fadir, I me confess, First to God and then to you... That at a window (wot ye how) I stole a kiss of great sweetness,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »