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title: "2 Christian Heart Quotes By Ralph Cudworth"
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> [Christ was vitoe magister, not scholoe; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven; not he whose head spinneth out the finest cobwebs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-cudworth/christ-was-vitoe-magister-not-scholoe-and-he-is-the-best-christian/)

[Ralph Cudworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-cudworth/)

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> [Christ came not to possess our brains with some cold opinions, that send down a freezing and benumbing influence into our hearts. Christ was a master of the life, not of the school; and he is the best Christian whose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-cudworth/christ-came-not-to-possess-our-brains-with-some-cold-opinions-that/)

[Ralph Cudworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-cudworth/)

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## More by Ralph Cudworth

> [Nowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-cudworth/nowledge-is-not-a-passion-from-without-the-mind-but-an-active/)

[Ralph Cudworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-cudworth/)

> [Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-cudworth/truth-is-the-most-unbending-and-uncompliable-the-most-necessary-firm/)

[Ralph Cudworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-cudworth/)

> [If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-cudworth/if-intellection-and-knowledge-were-mere-passion-from-without-or-the/)

[Ralph Cudworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-cudworth/)

> [Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-cudworth/things-are-sullen-and-will-be-as-they-are-whatever-we-think-them-or/)

[Ralph Cudworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-cudworth/)

> [The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-cudworth/the-true-knowledge-or-science-which-exists-nowhere-but-in-the-mind/)

[Ralph Cudworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-cudworth/)

> [Even the Atheists... readily acknowledge it for an indubitable truth, that there must be something... which was never made or produced - and which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-cudworth/even-the-atheists-readily-acknowledge-it-for-an-indubitable-truth/)

[Ralph Cudworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-cudworth/)

> [True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-cudworth/true-zeal-is-an-ignis-lambeus-a-soft-and-gentle-flame-that-will-not/)

[Ralph Cudworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-cudworth/)

> [Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-cudworth/knowledge-is-not-a-passion-from-without-the-mind-but-an-active/)

[Ralph Cudworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-cudworth/)

> [The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When our heart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-cudworth/the-best-assurance-any-one-can-have-of-his-interest-in-god-is/)

[Ralph Cudworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-cudworth/)

> [Christ was vitoe magister, not scholoe; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven; not he whose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-cudworth/christ-was-vitoe-magister-not-scholoe-and-he-is-the-best-christian/)

[Ralph Cudworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-cudworth/)

> [Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-cudworth/truth-and-love-are-two-of-the-most-powerful-things-in-the-world-and/)

[Ralph Cudworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-cudworth/)

> [He that is once "born of God shall overcome the world," and the prince of this world too, by the power of God in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-cudworth/he-that-is-once-born-of-god-shall-overcome-the-world-and-the-prince/)

[Ralph Cudworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-cudworth/)

> [We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-cudworth/we-have-all-a-propensity-to-grasp-at-forbidden-fruit/)

[Ralph Cudworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-cudworth/)

> [Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-cudworth/sense-is-a-line-the-mind-is-a-circle-sense-is-like-a-line-which-is/)

[Ralph Cudworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-cudworth/)

> [Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-cudworth/now-we-deny-not-but-that-politicians-may-sometimes-abuse-religion-and/)

[Ralph Cudworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-cudworth/)

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