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. — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
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… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Nowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world. — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be. — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Even the Atheists... readily acknowledge it for an indubitable truth, that there must be something... which was never made or produced - and which… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand. — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When our heart… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Christ was vitoe magister, not scholoe; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven; not he whose… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood. — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
He that is once "born of God shall overcome the world," and the prince of this world too, by the power of God in… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
