The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, love for their own sakes, not their Lord's.

It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.