All NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Quotes about “Church”

“The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn. But he was himself the chief horror of the scene, and shrank not from its other horrors.”
“By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places Â— whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest Â— where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.”
“But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.”

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