Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God. — 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 therefore is the cause of those other things that are made, something... whose existence must needs be necessary... Wherefore all the question now is, what is this... self-existent thing, which is the cause of all other… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share
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 him. Holiness is no solitary, neglected thing; it hath stronger confederacies, greater alliances, than sin and wickedness. It is in league with God and the universe; the whole creation smiles upon it; there is something of… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share
