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Sir Hall Caine

The Christian

  • Vlad Shvetshas quoted2 years ago
    Statesmen know too well the clerical cruelty which shelters itself behind the secular arm.
  • Vlad Shvetshas quoted2 years ago
    The morality of the nation is on the decline, uncle, and when morality is lacking the end is not far off. England is given up to idleness, pomp, dissolute practices, and pleasure—pleasure, always pleasure. The vice of intemperance, the mania for gambling, these are the vultures that are consuming the vitals of our people. Look at the luxury of the country—a ludicrous travesty of national greatness! Look at the tastes and habits of our age—the deadliest enemies of true religion! And then look at the price we are paying in what the devil calls 'the priestesses of society' for the tranquillity of the demon of lust!”
  • Vlad Shvetshas quoted2 years ago
    The whole trade of the world was of the nature of a gamble, life itself was a gamble, and the race-course was the only market in the world where no man could afford to go bankrupt, or be a defaulter and refuse to pay.
  • Vlad Shvetshas quoted2 years ago
    Oh, miserable delusion, to think that because a nation is rich it is therefore great!
  • Vlad Shvetshas quoted2 years ago
    God knows best! He has his own way of weaning us from vanity and the snares of the devil.
  • Vlad Shvetshas quoted2 years ago
    And the worst slavery of all was slavery to self. But that was an abyss he dared not look into
  • Vlad Shvetshas quoted2 years ago
    Glory could have sunk into the earth for shame, but in a moment she had realized the crushing truth that when a woman has been insulted in the deepest place—in her honour—the best she can do is to say nothing about it.
  • Vlad Shvetshas quoted2 years ago
    It was his duty—he must not shrink from it.
  • Vlad Shvetshas quoted2 years ago
    “If a profession is sinful,” said Drake, “in proportion as it appeals to the senses, and lives on the emotions, and develops duplicity, then the profession of the Church is the most sinful in the world, for it offers the greatest temptations to lying, and produces the worst hypocrites and impostors!”
  • Vlad Shvetshas quoted2 years ago
    “A profession,” said John, “which appeals above all to the senses, and lives on the emotions, and fosters jealousy and vanity and backbiting, and develops duplicity, and exists on lies, and does nothing to encourage self-sacrifice or to help suffering humanity, is a bad profession and a sinful one!”
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