These humans are only of flesh, of mud, and I suggest there is one force stronger than their zeal for God: their own self-righteousness! We will make them proud, pure in their own eyes, vindictive, unjust judges over each other, and stir up such a noise among them that the simplest prayer will not be uttered!
Piercing the Darkness: A Novel (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2012) - ISBN: 9781451673340