Ch. 9 + The Sermon

"And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists. "
-- Father Mapple gives us the crux of the Jonah story

"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."
-- Father Mapple, on the tyrrany of riches

"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."
-- Father Mapple, on the tyrrany of riches


"I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?'"
-- Father Mapple

"Delight is to him -- a far, far upward, and inward delight -- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self."
-- Father Mapple