26 Quotes by Joseph Glanvill

What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.

Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.

Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

What’s impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.

The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it’s no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, love for their own sakes, not their Lord’s.

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world’s nonage.