Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (23 November 1881) ... certainly would not use in a
sermon.
There really are no more unbelieving and hard-hearted and
worldly people than clergymen and especially clergymen's wives
(a rule with exceptions). But even clergymen sometimes have a
human heart under three layers of... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (29 December 1881) ... this summer
between Kee and me.
I do not remember ever having been in such a rage in my
life. I frankly said that I thought their whole system of
religion horrible, and just because I had gone too deeply into
those questions during a miserable period in... | Letter from Theo van Gogh/Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (5-8 January 1882) ... and Father took it amiss.
In case Father refers to my saying that, ever since I have
acquired so much dessous les cartes, I haven't given two pins
for the morality and the religious system of the clergy and
their academic ideas, then I absolutely... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (1-2 June 1882) ... understanding of art, but that will never happen. Clergymen
often introduce “things of beauty” into a sermon,
but it's dismal stuff and dreadfully stodgy.
Now I am glad that you have given me your frank opinion of
Sien, namely that she tricked... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (3 June 1883) ... pretentious and downright
ungodly. In point of fact, clergymen are among the most
unbelieving people in society and dry materialists. Perhaps not
right in the pulpit, but in private matters. From a moral point
of view one might be allowed to object to... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 22 September 1883) ... which I declared, however, to be too much for me. This was a
blind, because I then preferred not to explain to my protectors
that the whole university, the theological faculty at least,
is, in my eyes, an inexpressible mess, a breeding place of
Pharisaism.... |