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 Copy Share Image
Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through. — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
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… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity. — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods. — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions. — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
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… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
