SABINE BARING-GOULD QUOTES V

Anglican priest & novelist (1834-1924)

Evil eyes look out for occasion, therefore give none.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

Urith


The times have been bad, the hay was black with rain, the corn did not kern well, the mottled cow dropped her calf, the tenants have not paid, and so my poor boy gets nothing but advice in bushels and exhortations in yards.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

Urith

Tags: advice


There is not a single right to be discovered without a duty from which it springs.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

Tags: duty


God, the principle and the end of all, gives Himself to all to multiply indefinitely His gifts one by the other, and to distribute them, thus inimitably augmented, through each to all. Associated in this work of universal solidarity, we reunite all the scattered fragments of God's perfection manifested in ourselves.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

Tags: perfection


If prayer be the affirmation of the link between God and man, to neglect prayer is to disallow the link; and the link severed, the two personalities are opposed and become actively hostile, so that the idea of God is destroyed or at least is passively ignored.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

Tags: God


Supreme happiness to reason, that is the Ideal of the intellect, is the attainment of certainty upon every subject and about all things.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

Tags: happiness


Reason is a faculty for extracting truth out of materials provided by the sentiment.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

Tags: truth


But if every positive sentiment is good and true, by the sole fact of its existence, it follows that a sentiment which contradicts another may be a good and a relative truth, inasmuch as it is the veritable expression of an individual conscience, but that it is also an evil and an error, inasmuch as it contradicts another sentiment, thought or will, which emanates, with the same titles, from another individual conscience.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

Tags: conscience


Of authority there are two sorts, the authority of right, and the authority of force.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

Tags: authority


The rational conception of God is that He is; nothing more. To give Him an attribute is to make Him a relative God.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

Tags: God


God, the infinite Being, arrives at the finite only through the eternal Word, the mediating moment; the creature, or the finite, can only lift itself towards the infinite by means of the same mediator.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity


Our parents were then driven out of Paradise, and one leaf alone was given to each, wherewith to hide their nakedness.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets and Other Old Testament Characters

Tags: paradise


Beauty warms, and Truth illumines.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

Tags: truth


Because one man is a fool, is that reason why his friend ... should not be wise? Because one man throws away a diamond, why his comrade should not pick it up and wear it on his finger?

SABINE BARING-GOULD

Urith

Tags: fool


Man and God being placed face to face, one as contingent, the other as absolute, the contingent lives as contingent and the absolute as absolute. To live as absolute, is to be at once the power and principle of life; to live as contingent is to live as effect, without ever being able to live as principle.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

Tags: God


Justice cannot be exerted in a vacuum where there is neither good nor evil, right nor wrong.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

Tags: evil


Our convictions are the facts assured to us on the testimony of our own nature, our own senses, or our own reason.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

Tags: facts


Every religion is the expression of a want of man's spiritual nature, however uncouth or exaggerated may be the form it assumes. This uncouthness or exaggeration is due to negation of correlative wants. The want itself is the strain after a truth, the hunger of the spiritual nature. The Incarnation assumes to satisfy every one of these wants, and therefore must become a web, of which all philosophies are the warp, and all religions are the woof.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

Tags: nature


Evil is the rejection of the infinite for the finite.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity


Destroy the idea of God, and you destroy the idea of moral authority.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

Tags: authority