Matthew Tindal Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Matthew Tindal
I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple maxims of the former, will help to illustrate the more obscure ones of the latter, accommodated to the then way of speaking. — Matthew Tindal
That not adhering to those notions Reason dictates (concerning the nature of God), has been the occasion of all superstition, and those innumerable mischiefs that mankind (on account of religion) have done to themselves or to one another. — Matthew Tindal
God designed all Mankind should at all times know, what he wills them to know, believe, profess, and practice; and has given them no other Means for this, but the Use of Reason. — Matthew Tindal
(Those who) impute such actions to God, as make Him resemble the worst of beings, and so run into downright Demonism. — Matthew Tindal
Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things. — Matthew Tindal
Navarette, a Chinese missionary, agrees with Leibniz and says that It is the special providence of God that the Chinese did not know what was done in Christendom; for if they did, there would be never a man among them, but would spit in our faces. — Matthew Tindal