Robert South Quotes
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We are to carry manner from the hand to the heart, to improve a ceremonial nicety into a substantial duty and the modes of civility into the realities of religion.
[Manners]
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We never find the Scriptures commending any prodigal but one, and him only for ceasing to be so. - His prodigality brought him to the swine and their trough, and from imitating their sensuality, by a natural consequence, to take up with their diet too.
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Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him.
[Virtue]
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What are most of the histories of the world but lies? - Lies immortalized, and consigned over as a perpetual abuse and a flaw upon posterity.
[History]
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Whatever the will commands the whole man must do; the empire of the will over all the faculties being absolutely over-ruling and despotic.
[Will]
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When men first take up an opinion, and then seek for reasons for it, they must be contented with such as the absurdity of it will afford.
[Opinion]
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When once infidelity can persuade men that they shall die like beasts, they will soon be brought to live like beasts also.
[Infidelity]
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Where there is the most love to God, there will be there the truest and most enlarged philanthropy.
[Philanthropy]
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Wisdom is the name God gives to religion, so telling the world what it will hardly believe, that the two great things which so engross the desire and designs of both the nobler and ignobler sort of mankind, are to be found in religion, viz.: wisdom and pleasure, and that the former is the direct way to the latter, as religion is to both.
[Wisdom]
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Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.
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