Date: 1756, 1766

"[W]e go down with the current of the passions, and let bent and humour determine us, in opposition to what is decent and fit"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

One may "disregard the moral faculty, and become a mere system of passions and affections, without any thing at the head of them to govern them"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"[H]e seemed to live under a deliberate resolution not to be governed by reason"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"He would wink at the light he had, struggle to evade conviction, and make his mind a chaos and a hell"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

The "idea of a good character" includes "a continual subordination of the lower powers of our nature to the faculty of reason"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"As the instincts and passions were wisely and kindly given us, to subserve many purposes of our present state, let them have their proper, subaltern share of action; but let reason ever have the sovereignty, (the divine law of reason and truth) and be, as it were, sail and wind to the vessel of ...

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"We should invite men into our religion, by representing to them the perfection of that primary law of God, reason or natural religion; by declaring the plainness and clearness of it to all attentive and well-disposed minds"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"The reason he gave us, the law of nature, was giving us all that was absolutely necessary."

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

Infidels "could hardly refuse the invitation, when we told them, our religion was the eternal law of reason and of God restored, with a few excellently useful additions"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"[T]he gospel makes the very religion of nature, a main part of what it requires, and submits all that it reveals to the test of the law of reason"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)