Things Are Sullen, And Will

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.

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.

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.

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.

We Have All A Propensity To Grasp At Forbidden Fruit.