Francis Bacon Religion Quotes

#1. I am what I am, and what I am is a work in progress.

E.E. Blackwood

#2. For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

Francis Bacon

#3. Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Francis Bacon

#4. Eripuit coele fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis," or from Latin to English "He snatched the lightning from the skies and the scepter from the tyrants. Jacques Turgot

Nye

#5. I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life.

Hugh Jackman

#6. Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,
as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

Francis Bacon

#8. He is not a punishing God, Lizzy. That is the mistake most people make, thinking He sits with an account book and a big fist, waiting to punish us. He is not a wrathful God but a loving God who made each of us and loved us since we were in our mother's womb

Ann Rinaldi

#9. If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it!

Mignon McLaughlin

#10. All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

Francis Bacon

#11. Christ is the only way into Heaven. The world may say otherwise, but what they are really doing is making rules for someone else's house.

Monica Johnson

#12. When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

Francis Bacon

#13. Your mother says she will be brave and keep a stiff upper lip," said Father. "Americans are heartless. I will cry into my pillow every night.

Cassandra Clare

#14. Gingrich first backed the concept in 1993, I am for people, individuals - exactly like automobile insurance - individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance,

Newt Gingrich

#15. The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

Francis Bacon

#16. Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

Francis Bacon

#17. I'm partial to stilettos. Stilettoes and long, flowing dresses are my new favourites.

Sania Mirza

#18. I can tell you that solitude
Is not all exaltation, inner space
Where the soul breathes and work can be done.
Solitude exposes the nerve,
Raises up ghosts.
The past, never at rest, flows through it.

May Sarton

#19. The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

Francis Bacon

#20. But from the beginning, I knew that in a world where destiny was dead, I was destined, forever, to love him. Even though he didn't - though he couldn't - ever love me back.

Lauren Oliver

#21. It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.

Warren Buffett

#22. The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

Francis Bacon

#23. We are at war with enemies that still have the intent to do further damage to Americans at home and abroad.

Bradley A. Blakeman

#24. Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

John Cleese

#25. There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

Francis Bacon