| Thus, once independence had been achieved, the liberals tried to get rid of the church's privileges and to secularize education. |
| As there is nothing which the heart cannot sanctify, so is there nothing which it may not secularize. |
| The Pope who shall dare to secularize a foot-breadth of land which has been gifted to the Church is by that law accursed. |
| In their opinion, it was impious to secularize ecclesiastical property, and turn it aside to profane purposes. |
| The Carmelites had persecuted him in his youth, and in the end the prior had driven him to secularize himself. |
| This will and power to secularize himself is perhaps Emerson's unique attribute. |
