Joseph Butler Quotes

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?

It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons that Christianity is not so much as a subject for inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all […]