To me, to whom God hath revealed his Son, in a Gospel, by a Church, there can be no way of salvation, but by applying that Son of God, by that Gospel, in that Church. Nor is there any other foundation for any, nor other name by which any can be saved, but the name of Jesus. But how this foundation is presented, and how this name of Jesus is notified unto them, amongst whom there is no Gospel preached, no Church established, I am not curious in inquiring. I know that God can be as merciful as those tender Fathers present him to be and I would be as charitable as they are. And therefore, humbly embracing that manifestation of his Son, which he hath afforded me, I leave God, to his unsearchable ways of working upon others, without further inquisition.
Quotes about inquisition (16 Quotes)
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another pope, because suspected of heresy Remember the index expurgatorius, the inquisition, the stake, the axe, the halter, and the guillotine.
It was advantageous for the French and English to promote the idea that everything out of Spain was ugly, cruel and crude because of the Inquisition and blah, blah, blah. The legend persisted for years and years -- centuries -- with this belief that all the Spanish were barbarians.
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of goodsense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.
A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.
I should count myself the coward if I left them, my Lord Howard, To these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of Spain.
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.
Professors certainly have a right to disagree about pedagogy, ... It would have been both illegal and immoral for Brooklyn College to allow KC Johnson to face another official inquisition. Thankfully, this dire outcome has been averted.
War When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill.