Quotes by Ralph Cudworth - Page 1

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.
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Forbidden
Forbidden Fruit
Fruit
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A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.
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Conscience
Glasses
Heaven
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Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.
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Reality
Thinking
Wish
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True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.
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Flames
Gentle
Hands
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Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.
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Firm
Truth Is
World
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Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood.
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Powerful
Together
Two
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Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.
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Atheist
Dancing
May
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The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.
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Men
Sweet
Together
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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
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Journey
Knowledge
Active
Exertion
Inward
Mind
Passion
Vigor
Displaying
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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Running
Circles
Flux
Intellect
Mind
Within
Circle
Itself
Line
Point
Sense
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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.
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Men
Angel
Eternal
Participation
Wisdom God Knowledge
Angels
Immutable
Increased
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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.
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Christian
Heart
Heaven
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The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
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Entity
Mind
True Knowledge
Nowhere
Besides
Clearly
Exists
Intelligible
Therefore
Whatsoever
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If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand.
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Glasses
Mirrors
Passion
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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 heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven, not he whose head spins the finest cobweb.
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Christian
Heart
School
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The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When our heart is once turned into a conformity with the mind of God. when we feel our will conformed to His will, we shall then presently perceive a spirit of adoption within ourselves, teaching us to say, "Abba, Father.
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Father
Heart
Teaching
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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.
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Design
Abuse
Reality
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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 things that are made.
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Atheism
Atheist
Self
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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 God in it, and therefore it must needs be a victorious and triumphant thing.
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League
Overcoming
Stronger
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