“Conventionality is not morality.
Self-righteousness is not religion.
To attack the first is not to assail the last.
To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee,
is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
These things and deeds are diametrically opposed:
they are as distinct as is vice from virtue.
Men too often confound them:
they should not be confounded….“
they should not be confounded….“
– Charlotte Bronte,
Preface to the Second Edition of Jane Eyre
“You can safely assume
you’ve created God in your own image
when it turns out that God
hates all the same people you do.“
– Anne Lamott