"If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well I am persuaded of the goodness of God, that if in me alone should meet a confluence of all such errors of all the Protestants in the world that were thus qualified, I should not be so much afraid of them all, as I should be to ask pardon for them."

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Source : William Chillingworth (1820). “The works of William Chillingworth, 1: in three volumes”, p.111

William Chillingworth

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“The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.”

Source : "Michelangelo Antonioni : The Complete Films" edited by Seymour Chatman and Paul Duncan, (p. 113), 2004.
“Intensity is so much more becoming in the young.”
“In the United States we have all across this country, we have dozens of Halakha courts, in which particularly observant Jews can take these issues of family law to an orthodox Court and have that judge, judge for them. As long as the courts don't violate the laws of the land and as long as there's a room for appeal should one or two parties disagree with the verdict, I don't see how this would have anything to do with being incompatible with what we refer to as Western ideas of democracy.”
“I was always taught my do's and don'ts: For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't.”

Source : Song: I Gotcha Back, Album: Liquid Swords
“Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.”

Source : Jeremy Collier (1722). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: In Two Parts. ...”
“In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.”

Source : "Interview: Gary Ross breathes his life into 'Pleasantville'". www.cnn.com. October 12, 1998.
“Rationally considered, nothing can be more absurd than the baptism of infants under any circumstances. No statement, no matter by whom it may be said to have been uttered, can make that true which is radically false. If an innocent child, unconscious of good or evil, irresponsible to God and man, incapable of thought or action, is not already, in accordance with Christian theology, a member of Christ, then no vicarious promise or priestly ablution can make him one. For if this were so, a similar ceremony under devil worship could make him a member of Satan.”
“Sometimes the truth don't rhyme”

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