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If we make religion our business, God will make it our blessedness. - H.G.J. Adam Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find. - Matthew Arnold, Progress (st. 10) There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. - Francis Bacon, Essays--Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions. - Francis Bacon, Of Vicissitude of Things A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded. - Hosea Ballou Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring the circle. - Honore de Balzac The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual. - Henry Ward Beecher No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. - Jeremy Bentham Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divitias et filia devoravit matrem.] - saying of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. - Bible, Psalms (ch. XIX, v. 3-5) And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? - Bible, Genesis (ch. IV, v. 9) Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises. - Ambrose Bierce Can such bitterness enter into the heart of the devout? [Fr., Tant de fiel entre-t-il dans l'ame des devots?] - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Lutrin (I, 12) No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the Commandments. - Book of Common Prayer, Shorter Catechism The crooked end obedient spirits draws, The pointed, those rebels who spurn at Christian laws. [Lat., Curva trahit mites, pars pungit acuta rebelles.] - Thomas Broughton, Dictionary of all Religions Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion. - Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (XXV) Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low, Lest I should fear and fall, and miss Thee so Who art not missed by any that entreat. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Comfort Religion is the best armor in the world, but the worst cloak. - John Bunyan When the time was come for them to depart, they went to the Brink of the River. The last words of Mr. Despondency were, Farewell Night, welcome Day. His daughter went through the River singing, but none could understand what she said. - John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress The source of all good and of all comfort. - Edmund Burke The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own. - Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society--Preface (vol. I, p. 7) The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections. - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion. - Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with America Never trust anybody not of sound religion, for he that is false to God can never be true to man. - William Henry Burleigh People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion . . . "What religion?" . . . the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it." - Bishop Gilbert Burnet, History of his Own Times (vol. I, bk. I, sec. 96), footnote by Onslow, referring to Earl of Shaftesbury Displaying page 1 of 9 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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