God is not dumb, that he should speak no more;
If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness
And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.
But he turned up his nose at their murmuring and shamming,
And oared (shall I say?) not a d—n for their damning;
So they first read him out of their church and next minute
Turned round and declared he had never been in it.
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!
How many evils has religion caused!
Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the
way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat
of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers.
Martin Luther—Parody of First Psalm.
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it
gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure
to the spectators.
Macaulay—History of England. Vol. I. Ch.
II.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall,
no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn—No Cross, No Crown.
| seealso = (See also Quarles)
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{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>It was a friar of orders grey
Walked forth to tell his beads.
Thos. Percy—The Friar of Orders Grey.
Religion, which true policy befriends,
Designed by God to serve man's noblest ends,
Is by that old deceiver's subtle play
Made the chief party in its own decay,
And meets the eagle's destiny, whose breast
Felt tbe same shaft which his own feathers drest.
K. Phillips. On Controversies in Religion.
| seealso = (See also Æschylus under Eagle)
| topic = Religion
| page = 664
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
Wendell Phillips—Speech. Dec. 18, 1859.
We have a Calvinistic creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Arminian clergy.
So upright Quakers please both man and God.
| author = Pope
| work = The Dunciad.
| place = Bk. IV. L. 208.
To happy convents, bosom 'd deep in vines,
Whore slumber abbots purple as their wines.
Popis—The Dunciad.
| place = Bk. IV. L. 301.
Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires,
And unawares Morality expires.
| author = Pope
| work = The Dtmciml. Bk. IV. L. 649.
For virtue's self may too much zeal be had;
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
| author = Pope
| work = To Murray. Ep. VI. of Horace. L. 26.
I think while zealots fast and frown,
And fight for two or seven,
That there are fifty roads to town,
And rather more to Heaven.
Praed—Chant of Brazen Head. St. 8.
He that hath no cross deserves no crown.
Quarles—Esther.
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| topic = Religion
| page = 664
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{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Rs ont les textes pour eux; disait-il, j'en suis
fache' pour les textes.
They have the texts in their favor; said he,
so much the worse for the texts.
Royer-Collard—Words of disapproval of the
Fathers of Port Royal on their doctrine of
grace.
Humanity and Immortality consist neither in
reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the
animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts
and stirrings of the brain of it;—but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up
at the last day.
Ruskln—Stones of Venice. Vol I. Ch. II.
Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his
doublet slashed, another laced, another plain;
but every man has a doublet; so every man has
a religion. We differ about the trimming.
John Selden—Table Talk. P. 157. (Ed.
1696)
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = [Lord Shaftesbury said] "All wise men are of the same religion." Whereupon a lady in the room . . . demanded what that religion was. To whom Lord Shaftesbury straight replied, "Madam, wise men never tell."
Lord Shaftesbury (Said by first and third
Earl).. John Toiand—Cltdophorus. Ch.
XIH. Attributed to Samuel Rogers by
Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects.
Plea for the Free Discussion of Theological
Difficulties. Attributed also to Franklin.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Burnet)
I always thought
It was both impious and unnatural
That such immanity and bloody strife
Should reign among professors of one faith.
Henry VI. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 11.
In religion,
What damned error, but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text.
Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 77.
The moon of Mahomet
Arose, and it shall set:
While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon,
The cross leads generations on.
Shelley—Hellas. L. 237.
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
