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You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all read more
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his read more
Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.
I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that read more
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come on high and are contained in the sacred writings.
None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would read more
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the new, he would be insane.
Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.
Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may read more
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding.
