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1  You had the sacraments and grace and indulgences of the church to aid you.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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2  I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on by renegade catholics.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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3  This means to leave church by back door of sin and re-enter through the skylight of repentance.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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4  He approached timidly and knelt at the last bench in the body, thankful for the peace and silence and fragrant shadow of the church.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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5  Yet even there, on the hill of Calvary, He founded the holy catholic church against which, it is promised, the gates of hell shall not prevail.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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6  The priest had answered that Victor Hugo had never written half so well when he had turned against the church as he had written when he was a catholic.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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7  The voice of the director urging upon him the proud claims of the church and the mystery and power of the priestly office repeated itself idly in his memory.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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8  Towards Findlater's church a quartet of young men were striding along with linked arms, swaying their heads and stepping to the agile melody of their leader's concertina.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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9  The figure of a woman as she appears in the liturgy of the church passed silently through the darkness: a white-robed figure, small and slender as a boy, and with a falling girdle.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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10  To mortify the taste he practised strict habits at table, observed to the letter all the fasts of the church and sought by distraction to divert his mind from the savours of different foods.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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11  On Sunday mornings as he passed the church door he glanced coldly at the worshippers who stood bareheaded, four deep, outside the church, morally present at the mass which they could neither see nor hear.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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12  It was strange too that he found an arid pleasure in following up to the end the rigid lines of the doctrines of the church and penetrating into obscure silences only to hear and feel the more deeply his own condemnation.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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13  If ever he had seen himself celebrant it was as in the pictures of the mass in his child's massbook, in a church without worshippers, save for the angel of the sacrifice, at a bare altar, and served by an acolyte scarcely more boyish than himself.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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14  Time was to sin and to enjoy, time was to scoff at God and at the warnings of His holy church, time was to defy His majesty, to disobey His commands, to hoodwink one's fellow men, to commit sin after sin and to hide one's corruption from the sight of men.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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15  Saint Thomas, the greatest doctor of the church, the angelic doctor, as he is called, says that the worst damnation consists in this, that the understanding of man is totally deprived of divine light and his affection obstinately turned away from the goodness of God.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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16  You would not crush out that pride and anger in your heart, you would not restore those ill-gotten goods, you would not obey the precepts of your holy church nor attend to your religious duties, you would not abandon those wicked companions, you would not avoid those dangerous temptations.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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17  He founded it upon the rock of ages, and endowed it with His grace, with sacraments and sacrifice, and promised that if men would obey the word of His church they would still enter into eternal life; but if, after all that had been done for them, they still persisted in their wickedness, there remained for them an eternity of torment: hell.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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