To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.
We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.
The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.