William Chillingworth Quotes

• I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers.

  William Chillingworth

  Dog, Men, Lame

  'The Religion of Protestants' (1637)

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• Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.

  William Chillingworth

  Men, Expression, Causes

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• If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well I am persuaded of the goodness of God, that if in me alone should meet a confluence of all such errors of all the Protestants in the world that were thus qualified, I should not be so much afraid of them all, as I should be to ask pardon for them.

  William Chillingworth

  Men, Errors, Atheism

  William Chillingworth (1820). “The works of William Chillingworth, 1: in three volumes”, p.111

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