“I've never known anyone who has fallen into sin and been successfully restored by the formal church structure. Nor have I ever seen a formal church structure wisely deal with sin, enabling ministry to continue without interruption.”

Ólafur
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Four: The Beauty of the Heavens

Double Star (1956)
Context: I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics. I had sampled them — public libraries are a ready source of recreation for an actor short of cash — but I had found them as poor in vitamins as a mother-in-law’s kiss. Given time and plenty of paper, a philosopher can prove anything. I had the same contempt for the moral instruction handed to most children. Much of it is prattle and the parts they really seem to mean are dedicated to the sacred proposition that a “good” child is one who does not disturb mother’s nap and a “good” man is one who achieves a muscular bank account without getting caught. No, thanks!

As I Lay Dying (1930)

Managing, Chapter Four (Two Organizational Structures), p. 64.

Isabelle Lightwood, pg. 715
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

On Ranke's History of the Popes (1840)

The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 38

Source: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XIII, Section 1, p. 149

From An Open Congratulatory Message to the President George W Bush