Anglican priest & novelist (1834-1924)
If Ahab had no weak places in his armour, the bow drawn at a venture would not have sent an arrow to him with death at the point. No bluebottles are bred where carrion is not found.
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
That which mankind wanted, and wants still, is not new truths, but the co-ordination of all aspects of the truth.
SABINE BARING-GOULD
The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity
The idea so prevalent that man without woman, or woman without man, is an imperfect being, was the cause of the great repugnance with which the Jews and other nations of the East regarded celibacy.
SABINE BARING-GOULD
Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets and Other Old Testament Characters
I do not tread on you save when you grovel in the dirt.
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
In this is the great weakness of Protestantism. In their impatience of the authority of the Church, the reformers threw the proof of Christianity on a collection of documents bound together; they assumed it to be infallible, and its authors to be inspired—a claim not put forth by the authors themselves for writings which they never intended to serve as demonstrations of the faith.
SABINE BARING-GOULD
The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity
It must not be supposed that women, as they are now, are at all comparable to Eve in her pristine beauty.
SABINE BARING-GOULD
Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets and Other Old Testament Characters