Quotes of Joseph Butler - somelinesforyou

“ Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ The love of our neighbour is the same with charity, benevolence, or goodwill: it is an affection to the good and happiness of our fellow-creatures. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ To desire the attainment of this equality or superiority by the particular means of others being brought down to our own level, or below it, is, I think, the distinct notion of envy. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ But to us, probability is the very guide of life. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration: I mean a Future Life. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ To desire the attainment of this equality or superiority by the particular means of others being brought down to our own level, or below it, is, I think, the distinct notion of envy. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ Happiness does not consist in self-love. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ But to us, probability is the very guide of life. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived? ”

- Joseph Butler

“ The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ The love of our neighbour is the same with charity, benevolence, or goodwill: it is an affection to the good and happiness of our fellow-creatures. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing. ”

- Joseph Butler
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