William Edward Hartpole Lecky Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize the hour of enjoyment they procure, but we must not separate it from the price at which it was purchased.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Pain, Men, Religion

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1975). “History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne”, Ayer Company Pub

• The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Intellectual, Religion, Essentials

  "History of European morals from Augustus to Charlemagne".

• The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The spirit that shrinks from enquiry as sinful and deems a state of doubt a state of guilt, is the most enduring disease that can afflict the mind of man. Not till the education of Europe passed from the monasteries to the universities, not till Mohammedan science, and classical free thought, and industrial independence broke the sceptre of the Church, did the intellectual revival of Europe begin.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Men, Europe, Catholic

• In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Religion, Proportion, Catholicism

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