QUOTES UNIT 3

Question 1

The holy Bible can never speak UNTRUTH -whenever its true meaning is understood

Answer 1

Galileo
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

Question 2

Let us grant that THEOLOGY is the highest of the sciences. But if THEOLOGY does not concern itself with the subject-matter of the subordinate sciences because they do not deal with blessedness, then THEOLOGIANS should not take upon themselves the authority to decide controversies over issues which they have not studied

Answer 2

Galileo
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

Question 3

I have always been of the opinion that the two questions respecting God and the SOUL WERE THE CHIEF of those that ought to be determined by help of philosophy rather then theology….

Answer 3

Rene Descartes
Meditations on Philosophy

Question 4

If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have no MYSTERIOUS AND SUPERNATURAL, If we offend the principles of reason, our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.

Answer 4

Blaise Pascal
Pensees

Question 5

…it is by no means enough to have knowledge of the Christian faith, for Christianity CONSISTS RATHER OF PRACTICE.

Answer 5

German Pietists
Phillip Jakob Spener, Pia Desideria

Question 6

in Christ Jesus, in the distribution of grace and the spirit, there is neither male nor female. GALATIANS 3:28, and the grace and gift of God must not be quenched or suppressed. So while I know how to govern myself with proper received from God under a bushel [Matt 5:15] but use it to His honor and to the benefit of my neighbor.

Answer 6

German Pietists
Johanna Eleonora Petersen, Guide to a Thorough Understanding of the Holy Revelation of Jesus Christ

Question 7

But through men when they enter into society give up the equality, liberty, and executive power they had in the STATE OF NATURE into the hands of the society, to be so far disposed of by the legislative as the good of the society shall require, yet it being only with an intention in every one the better to preserve himself, his liberty and property.

Answer 7

John Locke
The Second Treatise of Government

Question 8

Reason, however cultivated and improved, cannot produce love of God; which is plain from hence: It cannot produce faith or hope; from which alone this LOVE CAN FLOW.

Answer 8

John Wesley
The Case of Reason Impartially Considered

Question 9

tho’ some of the dogmas of the persuasion, such as the eternal decrees of God, ELECTION, reprobation, etc., appeared to me unintelligible, others doubtful, and I early absented myself from the public assemblies of the sect, Sunday being my studying da, I was never without some religious principles…

Answer 9

Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Fraklin

Question 10

Sapere Aude! “Have courage to use your own understanding!”—that is the motto of enlightenment

Answer 10

Immanuel Kant
An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?

Question 11

When you make men slaves you DEPRIVE THEM OF HALF THEIR VITURE, you set them in your own conduct an example of fraud, rapine, and cruelty, and compel them to live with you in a state of war; and yet you complain that they are not honest or faithful!

Answer 11

Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Question 12

The mutual duties of the two sexes are not, and cannot be, equally binding on both. Women do wrong to complain of the inequality of man-made laws; THIS INEQUALITY IS NOT OF MANS MAKING, or at any rate it is not the result of mere prejudice, but of reason. She to whom nature entrusted the care of the children must hold herself responsible for them to their furture.

Answer 12

Enlightenment Philosophers Debate Gender Roles
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

Question 13

Would men but GENEROUSLY SNAP OUR CHAINS, and be content with rational fellowship, instead of slavish obedience, they would find us more observant daughters, more affectionate sisters, more faithful wives, more responsible mothers–in a word, better citizens.

Answer 13

Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Question 14

Give me a host of educated, pious MOTHERS AND SISTERS, and I will do more to revolutionize a country, In moral and religious taste, in manners and in social virtues and intellectual cultivation, than I can possibly do in double or treble the time, with a similar host of educated men…

Answer 14

Sarah Grimke
On the Condition of Women in the United States

Question 15

I love the pure, peaceable and impartial Christianity of Christ: I partial and hypocritical CHRISTIANITY OF THIS LAND. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity.

Answer 15

Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Question 16

…there is no intermediary more powerful than religion (wherefore the Church is the interpreter and guardian) in drawing the RICH AND WORKING CLASS together, by reminding each of its duties to the other, and especially of the obligations of justice.

Answer 16

Pope Leo XIII
Rerum Novarum

Question 17

I found that the bible claimed from one end to the other to be the authoritative Word of God to man. I then tried the natural plan of taking it as my TEXT-BOOK of religion, as I would use a TEXTBOOK in any science, testing it by submitting to its conditions. I found that Christ Himself invites men (John 7:17) to do this.

Answer 17

The Fundamentals

Question 18

the HUMAN RACE IS DIVIDED into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes, almost two genera– a small minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them.

Answer 18

H.L Mencken
“Homo Neanderthalis”

Question 19

We reject the false DOCTINE, as though the church were permitted to abandon the form of its message and order to its own pleasure or to changes in prevailing ideological and political convictions.

Answer 19

The Barmen Declaration

Question 20

I now believe the Bible to be inspired Word of God, inspired in a sense UTTERLY different from that of any merely human book.

Answer 20

The Fundamentals