Though we have not employed the arguments usually advanced by the apologists of Christianity, we have arrived by a different chain of reasoning at the same conclusion: Christianity is perfect; men are imperfect. Now, a perfect consequence cannot spring from an imperfect principle. Christianity, therefore, is not the work of men. If Christianity is not the work of man, it can have come from none but God. If it came from God, men cannot have acquired a knowledge of it except by revelation. Therefore, Christianity is a revealed religion.


As translated in A Cloud of Witnesses : The Greatest Men in the World for Christ and the Book (1894) by Stephen Abbott Northrop - Le génie du Christianisme (1802)

François-René de Chateaubriand Quotes

Though we have not employed the arguments usually advanced by the apologists of Christianity, we have arrived by a different chain of reasoning at...

Though we have not employed the arguments usually advanced by the apologists of Christianity, we have arrived by a different chain of reasoning at...

Though we have not employed the arguments usually advanced by the apologists of Christianity, we have arrived by a different chain of reasoning at...

Though we have not employed the arguments usually advanced by the apologists of Christianity, we have arrived by a different chain of reasoning at...