God is not dumb, that he should speak no more;
If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness
And find'st not Sinai, 't is thy soul is poor.
Bibliotres. J.R. LOWELL.
Religion, if in heavenly truths attired,
Needs only to be seen to be admired.
Expostulation. W. COWPER.
In religion,
What damnèd error, but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text.
Merchant of Venice, Act iii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
I think while zealots fast and frown,
And fight for two or seven,
That there are fifty roads to town,
And rather more to Heaven.
Chant of Brazen Head. W.M. PRAED.
Religion stands on tiptoe in our land,
Ready to pass to the American strand.
The Church Militant. G. HERBERT.
A Christian is the highest type of man.
Night Thoughts, Night IV. DR. E. YOUNG.
Remote from man, with God he passed the days,
Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
The Hermit. T. PARNELL.
Religion's all. Descending from the skies
To wretched man, the goddess in her left
Holds out this world, and, in her right, the next.
Night Thoughts, Night IV. DR. E. YOUNG.
My God, my Father, and my Friend,
Do not forsake me at my end.
Translation of Dies Irae. EARL OF ROSCOMMON.