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Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture.

Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture.

Thomas Hobbes
Faith, Men, Giving
"Leviathan". Book by Thomas Hobbes, 1651.

The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the appetite of the contractors, and therefore the just value is that which they be contented to give.

Thomas Hobbes
Giving, Appetite, Contractor
Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.83, Hackett Publishing

If God bestowed immortality on every man then when he made him, and he made many to whom he never purposed to give his saving grace, what did his Lordship think that God gave any man immortality with purpose only to make him capable of immortal torments? It is a hard saying, and I think cannot piously be believed. I am sure it can never be proved by the canonical Scripture.

Thomas Hobbes
Men, Thinking, Giving
Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.448

Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over.

Thomas Hobbes
Giving, Desire, Lasts
Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.122

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