"Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends."

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The pastor should always be pure in thought ... no impurity ought to pollute him who has undertaken the office of wiping away the stains in the hearts of others ... for the hand that would cleanse from dirt must be clean, lest, being itself sordid with clinging mire, it soil whatever it touches all the more.

— Pope Gregory I