Familiarity with holy things can often engender blindness, and churches are, for all their merits, institutions that embody, perhaps more than most, the will to perpetuate themselves. In this process, they can easily lose sight of the purpose for which they came into being and, in so doing, frustrate the Spirit.
Andrew Linzey (2013). “Why Animal Suffering Matters: Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics”, p.164, Oxford University Press
