Lillie Devereux Blake Quotes:
Life: August 12, 1833 - December 30, 1913
Birthday: August 12
Death: December 30
the most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy. ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart.
source: Lillie Devereux Blake (1883). “Woman's Place To-day: Four Lectures, in Reply to the Lenten Lectures on "Woman" by the Rev. Morgan Dix ...”
topic: Struggle, Heart, Religion, Constant Struggle
