There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It was served of the Jesuits, that they constantly inculcated a thorough contempt of worldly things in their doctrines, but eagerly grasped… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
