Author Profession

Man can certainly flee from God… but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.

Profession : Theologian

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

Profession : Theologian

The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk.

Profession : Theologian

It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name.

Profession : Theologian

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected ‘I believe’ to ‘one does feel’.

Profession : Theologian

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Profession : Theologian

Jews have God’s promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

Profession : Theologian

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Profession : Theologian

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

Profession : Theologian

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Profession : Theologian