"Chirpingly" Quotes from Famous Books
... future punishment professed by nineteen twentieths of Christendom is, if true, an evil incomparably worse than that, though every element of its dreadfulness were multiplied by millions beyond the power of numeration; and yet all goes on as quietly, the most of these fancied believers live as chirpingly, as if heaven were sure for everybody! Of course in their hearts they do not believe the terrific formula which drops so glibly ... — The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger |