Quotation

Father Mapple: "Oh, delight, is to him... who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth... stands forth his own inexorable self. Who destroys all sin, that we pluck it out from under the robes of SENATORS... AND JUDGES! And eternal delight shall be his... who coming to lay him down, can say: "O Father, mortal or immortal, here I die. I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's, or my own. Yet this is nothing. I leave eternity to Thee. For what is man, that he should live out the lifetime of his God?" "