From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.
This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through once every year. It is a book of all others for lawyers, as well as divines; and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and of rules for conduct. It fits man for life--it prepares him for death.
If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth.
A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors. . . . For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done!
He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.
The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
This is my religion. . . joy and exaltation in my own existence. . . so go ahead and snarl. . . bite. . . howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.
