The gloomy theology of the orthodox--the Calvinists--I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions--nay, most of the notions--wh...ich orthodox people have of the divinity of the Bible, I disbelieve. I am so nearly infidel in all my views, that too, in spite of my wishes, that none but the most liberal doctrines can command my assent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the tog...as and talliths of the Good Book.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, Fitz, I looked all through that bible, it was in very fine print and stumbling on that great book Ecclesiastics, read it alo...ud to all who would listen. Soon I was alone and began cursing the bloody bible because there were no titles in it--although I found the source of practically every good title you ever heard of. But the boys, principally Kipling, had been there before me and swiped all the good ones so I called the book Men Without Women hoping it would have a large sale among the fairies and old Vassar Girls.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Holinesse on the head, Light and perfections on the breast,... Harmonious bells below, raising the dead To leade them unto life and rest. Thus are true Aarons drest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incompr...ehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To say that God is an incorporeal substance, is to say in effect there is no God at all. What alleges he against it, but the Schoo...l-divinity which I have already answered? Scripture he can bring none, because the word incorporeal is not found in Scripture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But his Lordship [tells] ... us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cann...ot comprehend nor conceive this. For methinks it implies also that the whole world is also in the whole God, and in every part of God. Nor ... can I find anything of this in the Scripture. If I could find it there, I could believe it; and if I could find it in the public doctrine of the Church, I could easily abstain from contradicting it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leaving... the world, and the Philosophy thereof, to the disputation of men, for the exercising of their natural Reason.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »