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Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

Charles Buck
Kitchen, Tables, Shrines
Charles Buck (1831). “Anecdotes, religious, moral, and entertaining”, p.164

Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a monster; such monsters, however, have existed; and the heart almost bleeds at the recital of the cruel acts such have been guilty of; it teaches us, however, what human nature is when left to itself; not only treacherous, but desperately wicked.

Charles Buck
Heart, Men, Wicked
Charles Buck (1808). “Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Charles Buck, Author of the Theological Dictionary, Containing the Young Christian's Guide; Or, Suitable Directions, Cautions, and Encouragement, to the Believer on His First Entrance Into the Divine Life, a Treatise on Religious Experience: in which Its Nature, Evidences, and Advantages, are Considered; Together with Anecdotes, Religious, Moral, and Entertaining, Alphabetically Arranged, and Interpersed with a Variety of Useful Observations”, p.66

There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.

Charles Buck
Law, Perfection, Degrees
Charles Buck (1807). “A Theological Dictionary”, p.238

Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

Charles Buck
Awful, Eternity, Consideration
Charles Buck (1831). “Anecdotes, religious, moral, and entertaining”, p.44

Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers.

Charles Buck
Sunday, Names, Sacred

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