45 quotes found
Cleric · English · 1613–1667
English cleric (1613–1667)
“Love is friendship set on fire.”
“Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.”
“Teach us to pray often that we may pray oftener.”
“A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.”
“Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.”
“It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.”
“The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.”
“He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.”
“If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.”
“A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.”
“The private and personal blessings we enjoy-the blessings of immunity safeguard liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.”
“Friendship is the allay of our sorrows the ease of our passions the discharge of our oppression the sanctuary of our calamities the counselor of our doubts the clarity of our minds the emissi...”
“Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth”
“Friendship is the allay of our sorrows the ease of our passions the discharge of our oppression the sanctuary of our calamities the counselor of our doubts the clarity of our minds the emission of ...”
“My trust is in God.”
“The Church hath power to intend our Faith, but not to extend it; to make our belief more evident, but not more large and comprehensive. For Christ and his Apostles concealed nothing that was necess...”
“For heresy is not an error of the understanding, but an error of the will. And this is clearly insinuated in Scripture, in the style whereof Faith and a good life are made one duty, and vice is cal...”
“For to believe what God hath commanded, is in order to a good life; and to live well is the product of that believing, and as proper emanation from it, as from its proper principle, and as heat is ...”
