God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.

Quote by Joseph Butler

Topics: Quotes about Joseph Butler

Share on:

Similar quotes

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is...

#Joseph Butler

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of...

#Joseph Butler

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant...

#Joseph Butler

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

#Joseph Butler

This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die...

#Joseph Butler

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense,...

#Joseph Butler

Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.

#Joseph Butler

Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but,...

#Joseph Butler

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we...

#Joseph Butler