It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

- Joseph Glanvill

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

- Joseph Glanvill

The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.

- Joseph Glanvill

The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

- Joseph Glanvill

It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion its…

- Joseph Glanvill

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

- Joseph Glanvill

How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie.

- Joseph Glanvill

And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things …

- Joseph Glanvill

Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.

- Joseph Glanvill