Rite/christian

Famous quotes containing the words rite and/or christian:

“No doubt they rose up early to observe
The rite of May.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“He says a man may perhaps answer, that the necessity of things held by him, is not a stoical necessity, but a Christian necessity, &c. But this distinction I have not used, nor indeed have ever heard before, nor could I think any man could make stoical and Christian two kinds of necessity, though they may be two kinds of doctrine”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)