Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes about Church

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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Liars, Atheism, Church

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Anger, Humility, Church

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1839). “Aids to reflection in the formation of a manly character on the several grounds of prudence, morality and religion”, p.72

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Feelings, Doubt, Church

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer, Carl Woodring (1990). “Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)”, Bollingen Foundation