This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.

... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.

Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

A great leap in the dark

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.