The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.
Source: In The New Webster's Dictionary of Quotations and Famous Phrases, by Donald Bolander, 1987.
-- Sholem Asch, (Nov 1 1880-1957), US novelist; He was noted for tales of Jewish life and Biblical novels including The Apostle, 1943 and Moses, 1951.