Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; …

- Ralph Cudworth

Christ came not to possess our brains with some cold opinions, that send down a freezing and benumbing influence into our hearts. Christ was a master…

- Ralph Cudworth

Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.

- Ralph Cudworth

True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.

- Ralph Cudworth

A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.

- Ralph Cudworth

He that is once "born of God shall overcome the world," and the prince of this world too, by the power of God in him. Holiness is no solitary, neglec…

- Ralph Cudworth

The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When our heart is once turned into a conf…

- Ralph Cudworth

Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.

- Ralph Cudworth

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from …

- Ralph Cudworth