Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
Charles Caleb ColtonMen will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
Charles Caleb ColtonThere are too many who reverse both the principles and the practice of the Apostles; they become all things to all men, not to serve others, but themselves; and they try all things only to hold fast that which is bad.
Charles Caleb ColtonThe highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.
Charles Caleb Colton