Anglican priest & novelist (1834-1924)
Although the drizzle was excluded by roof and walls from the house, the moisture-charged atmosphere could not be shut out, and it made the interior only less wretched than outside the house.
SABINE BARING-GOULD
Urith
What then is Error? It is nothing per se. It is the opposition of one relative truth against another to the exclusion of the latter.
SABINE BARING-GOULD
The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity
We say that science is in its infancy; it will never become decrepit, for if truth be infinite, there will always be new aspects of it to be discovered.
SABINE BARING-GOULD
The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity
The God of reason cannot be the object of religion.
SABINE BARING-GOULD
The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity
The life of the animal is more complete than that of the vegetable, for it intervenes more spontaneously and more efficaciously in the double function of self-protection and continuance of the species.
SABINE BARING-GOULD
The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity
Wisdom is inconceivable apart from something about which it can be called into operation.
SABINE BARING-GOULD
The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity
I do not tread on you save when you grovel in the dirt.
SABINE BARING-GOULD
Urith
God's existence escapes demonstration; it is idle to ask reason to prove what is beyond its scope, for reason is the faculty of dealing with the finite.
SABINE BARING-GOULD
The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity