Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Anger, Humility, Church

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1839). “Aids to reflection in the formation of a manly character on the several grounds of prudence, morality and religion”, p.72

• An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Stars, Men, Sky

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.291

• Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Liars, Atheism, Church

• A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Ideas, Opposites

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1913*). “Golden Hours with Samuel Taylor Coleridge”

• Mr. Mum's Rudesheimer
  And the church of St. Geryon
  Are the two things alone
  That deserve to be known
  In the body-and-soul-stinking town of Cologne.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Two, Soul, Church

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.306, Classic Books Company

• To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Feelings, Doubt, Church

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer, Carl Woodring (1990). “Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)”, Bollingen Foundation

• A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Church, Gothic, Architecture

• In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the individual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them. Faith is subjective.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Faith, Christian, Heart

• Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Heart, Doctors, Religion

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1831). “Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: Illustrated by Select Passages from Our Elder Divines, Especially from Archbishop Leighton”, p.181

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