21 Quotes by Ralph Cudworth

A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.

Christ came not to possess our brains with some cold opinions, that send down a freezing and benumbing influence into our hearts. Christ was a master of the life, not of the school; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven, not he whose head spins the finest cobweb.

True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.

The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When our heart is once turned into a conformity with the mind of God. when we feel our will conformed to His will, we shall then presently perceive a spirit of adoption within ourselves, teaching us to say, "Abba, Father.

Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.

Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.