https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:33:30 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/chillingworth-william/24536/ https://wist.info/chillingworth-william/24536/#respond Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:27:09 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=24536 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.

William Chillingworth (1602-1644) English churchman and theologian
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Quoted in The Parliamentary History of England, Vol. 15, 29 George II, "Debate on a Motion for a Vote of Censor on the Treaties with Russia and Hesse Cassel (1755)" (1813) ]]> https://wist.info/chillingworth-william/24536/feed/ 0 24536 https://wist.info/chillingworth-william/25029/ https://wist.info/chillingworth-william/25029/#respond Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:01:15 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=25029 It is no good reason for a man’s religion that he was born and brought up in it; for then a Turk would have as much reason to be a Turk as a Christian to be a Christian.

William Chillingworth (1602-1644) English churchman and theologian
Religion of Protestants, ch. 2, sec. 113 (1687)
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