| Author |
Quotes |
| William M Evarts | It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne. |
| William M Holden | I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. |
| William Ralph Inge | The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted. |
| William Temple | If you talk to God, you are praying, if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. |
| Woodrow Wilson | One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived. |
| C S Lewis | Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. |
| Charles Churchill | The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own. |
| Charles Caleb Colton | Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 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. |
| Edmund Burke | 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 | 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 | The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own. |
| Edmund Burke | Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. |
| Francis Bacon | There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. |
| Francis Bacon | The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions. |
| Francis Bacon | Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. |
| Francis Bacon | A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion. |
| Francis Bacon | God's first creature, which was light. |
| Francis Bacon | 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. |
| George Bernard Shaw | No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says, He is always convinced that it says what he means. |
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