John Selden Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.

  John Selden

  Two, Religion, Church

  John Selden (1821). “Selden's table talk”, p.37

• Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone.

  John Selden

  Christian, Prayer, Light

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.61

• We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

  John Selden

  Knives, Religion, Looks

  John Selden (1821). “Selden's table talk”, p.128

• Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.

  John Selden

  Fashion, Men, Religion

• Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere of the same religion on all points.

  John Selden

  Men, Religion, Three

  Boethius, Roger Ascham, George Gascoigne, Sir Philip Sidney, John Selden (1901). “English Belles-lettres: From A. D. 901 to 1834”

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