“One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.”
Robert Elsmere, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.”
Robert Elsmere, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“This Laodicean cant of tolerance.”
Robert Elsmere. Book ii. Chap. xii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems — but God remains.”
Robert Elsmere. Book iv. Chap. xxvi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.”
Robert Elsmere. Book vi. Chap. xxxviii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).