but it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at once in argument or conversation to the advantages of the pessimist and the optimist.

this is her body this is her blood

God requireth not a uniformity of religion.

God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state; which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.