Benjamin Stillingfleet quotes
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“Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.”
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“Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.”
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“Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.”
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“Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.”
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“Error is but the shadow of the truth.”
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“Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.”
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“See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.”
-- Benjamin StillingfleetSource : Benjamin Stillingfleet (1811). “Literary Life and Select Works of Benjamin Stillingfleet: Several of which Have Never Before Been Published ...”
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“Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.”
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“Peace and wickedness are far asunder.”
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“A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.”
-- Benjamin Stillingfleet
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