Lillie Devereux Blake famous quotes

the most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy. ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart.
-- Lillie Devereux Blake

#Struggle #Heart #Religion

We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.
-- Lillie Devereux Blake

#Queens #Tired #Reality

people share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.
-- Lillie Devereux Blake

#People #Roles #Common

Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be held in a low estimate.
-- Lillie Devereux Blake

#Sex #Long #Literature

I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.
-- Lillie Devereux Blake

#Mean #Earning #Poor

It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the Governor in his chair of State, orthe hunted outlaw wandering through the night, hungry and cold and with murder in his heart.
-- Lillie Devereux Blake

#Heart #Night #Men

One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling.

Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

Could man be drunk for ever       With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning       And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober       And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten       Their hands upon their hearts.

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.