"Scapulary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... by our will. I do not propose to you to believe extravagant things in order to escape embarassment. I do not say to you, 'Go to Mecca, and instruct yourself by kissing the black stone, take hold of a cow's tail, muffle yourself in a scapulary, or be imbecile and fanatical to acquire the favor of the Being of beings.' I say to you, 'Continue to cultivate virtue, to be beneficent, to regard all superstition with horror, or with pity; but adore, with me, the design which is manifested in all nature, ...
— The Christian Foundation, February, 1880 |
