Naked and unashamed, she smiles and weeps in mockery of the virtue which you would persuade yourselves that she represents to you.

Will you learn spiritual-mindedness from the sight of her eyes, from the sound of her mouth, from the measure of her steps, or from the music and the dancing that cease not within the doors of her temple?
How can Satan cast out Satan?
Whom think ye to deceive by whitening the sepulchre?
Is it yourselves?
The devil has blinded you already.

Is it God?
Who shall hide anything from Him?
I tell you that he who makes the pursuit of virtue a luxury, and takes refuge from sin, not before the altar, but in the playhouse, is casting out devils by Beelzebub, the prince of the devils.
"As I look about me in this church; I see many things intended to give pleasure to the carnal eye.

Were the cost of all these dainty robes, this delicate headgear, these clouds of silk, of satin, of lace, and of sparkling jewels, were the price of these things brought into the Church's treasury, how loudly might the Gospel resound in lands between whose torrid shores and the tropical sun the holy shade of Calvary has not yet fallen! But, you will say, it is a good thing to be comely in the house of the Lord.

The sight of what is beautiful elevates the mind.
Uncleanness is a vice.