10 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Faith

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes on faith

6. Forth from his dark and lonely hiding place (Portentous-sight!) the owlet Atheism, Sailing an obscene wings athwart the noon, Drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, And hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, Cries out, 'Where is it?'

13. Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

17. And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.

22. The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust; His soul is with the saints, I trust.

33. If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

63. The self-same moment I could pray; And from my neck so free The Albatross fell off, and sank Like lead into the sea.

75. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

89. Saints will aid if men will call: For the blue sky bends over all!

112. That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

153. I have known books written on Tolerance, the proper title of which would be - intolerant or intolerable books on tolerance. Should not a man who writes a book expressly to inculcate tolerance learn to treat with respect, or at least with indulgence, articles of faith which tens of thousands ten times told of his fellow-subjects or his fellow-creatures believe with all their souls, and upon the truth of which they rest their tranquillity in this world, and their hopes of salvation in the next, - those articles being at least maintainable against his arguments, and most certainly innocent in themselves?