Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by William Chillingworth

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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
William Chillingworth

William Chillingworth was a controversial English churchman.

October 12, 1602 - January 30, 1644
If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well I am persuaded of the goodness of God, that if in me alone should meet a confluence of all such errors of all the Protestants in the world that were thus qualified, I should not be so much afraid of them all, as I should be to ask pardon for them.
I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers. — © William Chillingworth
I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers.
Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.
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