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Quotes by S. T. Coleridge
If you wish to be assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.— filed under Belief
Intense study of the Bible will keep any man from being vulgar in point of style.— filed under Bible
Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.— filed under Death
Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine word which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart; which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and feelings.— filed under Faith
Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my peace amid tumult. For all the evil I have committed, my gracious pardon; and for every effort, my exceeding great reward. I have found it to be so. I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists.— filed under Faith In Christ
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.— filed under Religion
If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?— filed under Thought
Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the key-stone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done, the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.— filed under Habit
He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small : For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all,— filed under Prayer
Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.— filed under Reason
Religion passes out of the ken of reason only where the eye of reason has reached its own horizon; faith is then but its continuation, even as the day softens away into the sweet twilight; and twilight, hushed and breathless, steals into the darkness.— filed under Reason