“Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?”

— Charles de Lint

Part Two: The Lost Music, "The Touchstone" p. 501
The Little Country (1991)

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Louis L'Amour The Haunted Mesa

Source: The Haunted Mesa

“We made the mountains shake
With laughter as we played,
Hiding in our corner of the world.
Then we did the demon dance
And rushed to nevermore,
Threw away the key and locked the door.”

Ronnie James Dio (1942–2010) American singer

"Children of the Sea" on Heaven and Hell (1980)
Lyrics

“Unscrew the locks from the doors!
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

“Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all nations to prepare themselves against its onslaught by taking proper precautions.”

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer

Introduction, p. viii
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

“Achilles exists only through Homer. Take away the art of writing from this world, and you will probably take away its glory.”

François-René de Chateaubriand book Les Natchez

Les Natchez (1826).

“Beyond the grave! As the vision rises how this side dwindles into nothing — a speck — a moment — and its glory and pomp shrink into the trinkets and baubles that amuse an infant for a day. Only those things, in the glory of this light, which lay hold of immortality, seem to have any value.”

Randolph Sinks Foster (1820–1903) American bishop

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 212.

“The Key! it is of wonderful construction, with its infinity of combination, and its unlimited capacity to fit every lock. … it is the great master-key which unlocks every door of knowledge and without which no discovery which deserves the name — which is law, and not isolated fact — has been or ever can be made. Fascinated by its symmetry the geometer may at times have been too exclusively engrossed with his science, forgetful of its applications; he may have exalted it into his idol and worshipped it; he may have degraded it into his toy... when he should have been hard at work with it, using it for the benefit of mankind and the glory of his Creator.”

Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880) American mathematician

Ben Yamen's Song of Geometry (1853)

“When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?”

Tony Benn (1925–2014) British Labour Party politician

On the same-sex marriage controversy in the Church of England.
"Tony Benn: The glorious revolutionary" http://www.journal-online.co.uk/article/3082-tony-benn-the-glorious-revolutionary, The Journal (26 March 2008).
2000s

“Why should he remember her? Why should she remember him? She had other things to think about. She was a grown woman. She had to face life. Even if all life had to show her was a locked door, and behind the locked door, no room.”

Ursula K. Le Guin book The Eye of the Heron

Source: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 2 (p. 30)

“It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Variant: It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love
Source: An Ideal Husband

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