“If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.” IfsTryingBelieveBeliefWishChristianityRewardsInsightAssured Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.” FirstsBeliefEasyUnderstandingCommonPrejudiceAssuredReception Author:Joseph Glanvill
“Were a man, whom I know to be honest and opulent, and with whom I live in intimate friendship, to come into my house, where I am surrounded with my servants, I rest assured, that he is not to stab me before he leaves it, in order to rob me of my silver standish; and I no more suspect this event, than the falling of the house itself which is new, and solidly built and founded.--But he may have been seized with a sudden and unknown frenzy.--So may a sudden earthquake arise, and shake and tumble my house about my ears.” KnowsMenMayHas BeensOrderFallHouseBeliefHonestEventsHonestyBuiltEarsAriseBeing HonestServantIntimateShakesSilverSuspectsAssuredEarthquakesFrenzy Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition
“The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties.” RealBeliefFieldsAuthorityIgnorantPenaltiesAssuredDogmaticReal Knowledge Author:Abraham Myerson
“If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.” IfsShouldReasonBeliefUnderstandingReligiousMoralMankindIntellectualAssuredReligious BeliefLamentBribery Book:Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism Source: Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism