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Quotes from History of Variations in the Protestant Churches — Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

1627–1704 France

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Deism, that is to say a disguised atheism.

History of Variations in the Protestant Churches (1688)

The essence of the heretic, that is to say of someone who has a particular opinion, is that he clings to his own ideas; and the essence of the Catholic, that is to say of the universal, is to prefer to his sentiments the common sentiment of the entire Church.

History of Variations in the Protestant Churches (1688)

But God laughs at the prayers we make to him to avert public misfortunes, when we do not oppose what is being done to bring them about. What am I saying? when we approve of and subscribe to it, even if with repugnance.

History of Variations in the Protestant Churches (1688)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.