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— Jonathan Swift"The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious."
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Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you perfect the art, it partakes of mechanical coarseness. Works of art cannot then be sacred and divine.
— Clement of Alexandria
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And as the divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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