SABINE BARING-GOULD QUOTES IV

Anglican priest & novelist (1834-1924)


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Curiosity, is a movement of the soul towards Truth, which it seeks to assimilate by Knowledge. It is the first step in the direction of Certainty.

SABINE BARING-GOULD
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The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity


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Christ is not simply God and man, but is God-man indivisibly and simultaneously; that is to say, He is at once the infinite, or the idea of the divine personality, and the finite, or the idea of the created personality. In Him the two personalities are not only welded together, and brought into reciprocal communion, but are emphasized and distinguished at the same time. Without Him the Absolute could not have called the finite into existence, for there would be no mode of passage from the timeless and spaceless, the imponderable and immaterial Being to matter, subject to extension, duration, and gravitation; apart from Him man could not enter into relation with God, for he would be the finite dislocated from the infinite, without connecting bridge.

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The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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To create is to love, to will the creature for itself. The creature is therefore willed as its own end. God wills that the creature should be. He wills it in the interest of the creature. He wills its good, and its good consists in the realization of its being.

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The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Therefore science and religion are each necessary, the one to distinguish individualities, the other to bring individualities into unity.

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The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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If meditation be the affirmation of the existence of God--and meditation need not be lengthy, one rapid flash of thought is sufficient--to neglect it is practically to deny God.

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The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Time is duration; but duration without something to endure is an absurdity. There can be no time without something existing, whose relation to something else it expresses. Time has no proper existence, and separated from beings, is annihilated. Hence it follows that the infinity we attribute to time has no rational foundation. Infinite time is impossible, indefinite duration is possible.

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The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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The only knowledge man has of his thoughts is by their expression, consequently, every material being that can be conceived by the mind exists or can exist . He may imagine what is incongruous, as the sphinx. But his imagination is a piecing together of realities, not a creation out of nothing.

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My dear sir, if we only talked about what we understood, our conversation would be extremely limited.

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Only a Ghost

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Human authority may furnish conviction, but never certainty. Divine authority is immutable and infallible.

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The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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God, the infinite Being, arrives at the finite only through the eternal Word, the mediating moment; the creature, or the finite, can only lift itself towards the infinite by means of the same mediator.

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The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity


Evil eyes look out for occasion, therefore give none.

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Urith


There is not a single right to be discovered without a duty from which it springs.

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The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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The times have been bad, the hay was black with rain, the corn did not kern well, the mottled cow dropped her calf, the tenants have not paid, and so my poor boy gets nothing but advice in bushels and exhortations in yards.

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Urith

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Consequently our idea of the Deity is that of the archetype of our own minds.

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The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity


And as we perceive that virtue assumes a multitude of diverse forms, this variety discovered in intelligent beings convinces us that the most perfect Being is He who unites in Himself the greatest number, or the sum total, of all these perfections.

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The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Thus man believes in truths of two kinds, in those of absolute certainty through direct conviction, and in those of comparative certainty through conviction of the trustworthiness of the authority which propounds them.

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The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Supreme happiness to reason, that is the Ideal of the intellect, is the attainment of certainty upon every subject and about all things.

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If prayer be the affirmation of the link between God and man, to neglect prayer is to disallow the link; and the link severed, the two personalities are opposed and become actively hostile, so that the idea of God is destroyed or at least is passively ignored.

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The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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God wills man to be free, but the emancipation of himself is in man's own hands.

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The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity


Christ, comprehending in one the two natures, human and divine, being the union of the relative and the absolute, is therefore the living realization of that Ideal, infinite in itself, and infinite in each of its terms, which marks the phases of His eternal work. Mediator between the create and the uncreate, which are united in Himself, He is, in His Church, which is His body, the eternal harmonizer of all individual reasons in the unity of the Divine reason, or the Word made flesh, conceived and realized by the Spirit of infinite love, in whom all love is also universalized.

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The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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