SABINE BARING-GOULD QUOTES IX

Anglican priest & novelist (1834-1924)

What then is Error? It is nothing per se. It is the opposition of one relative truth against another to the exclusion of the latter.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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But the right of might is not a right, it is the violation of right; and the obligation to obey the strongest is not a duty, it is a physical necessity. It is playing with words to call that a right which is a faculty growing and waning with the power which imposes it, and that a duty which is necessary submission to a power against which resistance is vain.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Properly speaking, the name of God is not to be given to the Absolute before creation; the Absolute is the only philosophical name admissible, and that is unsatisfactory, for it is negative; but the idea of God before matter was must be incomprehensible by material beings.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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The life of the animal is more complete than that of the vegetable, for it intervenes more spontaneously and more efficaciously in the double function of self-protection and continuance of the species.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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The God of reason cannot be the object of religion.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Wisdom is inconceivable apart from something about which it can be called into operation.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity


I do not tread on you save when you grovel in the dirt.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

Urith


God's existence escapes demonstration; it is idle to ask reason to prove what is beyond its scope, for reason is the faculty of dealing with the finite.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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