SABINE BARING-GOULD QUOTES IV

Anglican priest & novelist (1834-1924)

In vain is it argued that we are to give up our private judgment to a revelation; we can only admit the authority of the revelation by an act of our individual judgment.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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God, the principle and the end of all, gives Himself to all to multiply indefinitely His gifts one by the other, and to distribute them, thus inimitably augmented, through each to all. Associated in this work of universal solidarity, we reunite all the scattered fragments of God's perfection manifested in ourselves.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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When the creature takes full possession of the liberty it has received it becomes a person.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Time is duration; but duration without something to endure is an absurdity. There can be no time without something existing, whose relation to something else it expresses. Time has no proper existence, and separated from beings, is annihilated. Hence it follows that the infinity we attribute to time has no rational foundation. Infinite time is impossible, indefinite duration is possible.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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The faculty of teaching freely is a right, for instruction is a duty.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Power is the exercise of superior force against a body that resists. Suppress the idea of resistance, and the idea of power disappears.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Love is the rule of rules, the key to all mysteries.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Hell's foundations quiver
At the shout of praise;
Brothers, lift your voices,
Loud your anthems raise.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

"Onward Christian Soldiers"

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God, then, did not find in Himself any reason for creating. If the reason for creation were to be found in the nature of the Absolute, there would be no creation. The existence of the world is therefore irrational, for what can be more irrational than the idea of something added to perfection? Nevertheless the world exists. Reality is not rational, it is superior to reason.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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God wills man to be free, but the emancipation of himself is in man's own hands.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity


Consequently our idea of the Deity is that of the archetype of our own minds.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity


The only knowledge man has of his thoughts is by their expression, consequently, every material being that can be conceived by the mind exists or can exist . He may imagine what is incongruous, as the sphinx. But his imagination is a piecing together of realities, not a creation out of nothing.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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That Eve was Adam's second wife was a common Rabbinic speculation; certain of the commentators on Genesis having adopted this view to account for the double account of the creation of woman in the sacred text--first in Genesis i. 27, and secondly in Genesis ii. 18; and they say that Adam's first wife was named Lilith, but she was expelled from Eden, and after her expulsion Eve was created.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets and Other Old Testament Characters


Onward then, ye people, join our happy throng,
Blend with ours your voices in the triumph song.
Glory, laud, and honor unto Christ the King,
This through countless ages men and angels sing.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

"Onward Christian Soldiers"

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Liberty acting without motive is no more liberty, it is chance, and chance is another name for ignorance.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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If there be an axiom evident to all, it is this, that liberty is a first necessity of existence.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Freedom consists in the exercise of the will in overthrowing every opposition which restrains the development of the nature of the creature.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Every religion is the expression of a want of man's spiritual nature, however uncouth or exaggerated may be the form it assumes. This uncouthness or exaggeration is due to negation of correlative wants. The want itself is the strain after a truth, the hunger of the spiritual nature. The Incarnation assumes to satisfy every one of these wants, and therefore must become a web, of which all philosophies are the warp, and all religions are the woof.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Duty is the faculty of doing freely, and if necessarily, forcibly, that which is imposed on man by God. It is a dogma, and must be accepted as an irrational verity. We can have our rights and demand liberty on no other condition.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Deny God, and authority rests on force alone; we relapse into despotism.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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