On the Puritans

To me, I confess, this Northern division of our once unruly colonies is, and always has been, the dearest.  I am no Puritan, myself, and fancy that, had I lived in the days of the Puritans, I should have been anti-Puritan to the full extent of my capabilities.  But I should have been so through [...]

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Our Perception of God’s Goodness

God is good to us, and heals those wounds with a rapidity which seems, to us, impossible when we look forward, but which is regarded with very insufficient wonder when we look backward.
From his novel The Bertrams, Chapter 3.
These five quotations from the writings of Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) are taken from: The Sayings of Anthony [...]

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Hypocrites in the Church

“Those are the sort of men [said Archdeacon Grantly] who will ruin the Church of England…It is not the dissenters or the papists that we should fear, but the set of canting, low-bred hypocrites who are wriggling their way in among us: men who have no fixed principle, no standard ideas of religion or doctrine, [...]

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Judging a Man

I judge a man by his actions with men much more than his declarations Godwards. – Anthony Trollope
From a letter dated June 8, 1876

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Purity of Clergymen

Clergymen are like women.  As long as they’re pure, they’re a long sight purer than other men; but, when they fall, they sink deeper. – Anthony Trollope
From his novel Miss Mackenzie, Chapter 24.

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Love vs. Lust

Lust is ever bad, and love ever good.  That I take to be a truth arranged by God. – Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was the greatest British novelist of the 19th century.

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