Religion Quotes
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Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them (Religion Quotes)
You may discover tribes of men without policy, or laws, or cities, or any of the arts of life; but nowhere will you find them without some form of religion (Religion Quotes)
The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual (Religion Quotes)
Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion (Religion Quotes)
Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them (Religion Quotes)
Nothing has wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal (Religion Quotes)
If religion might be judged of according to men’s intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world (Religion Quotes)
The strength of opening manhood is never so well employed as in practicing subserviency to God’s revealed will; it lends a grace and a beauty to religion, and produces an abundant harvest (Religion Quotes)
The secret of a man’s nature lies in his religion, in what he really believes about this world and his own place in it (Religion Quotes)
It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal (Religion Quotes)
There is religion in everything around us, a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of nature, which man would do well to imitate (Religion Quotes)
All the principles which religion teaches, and all the habits which it forms, are favorable to strength of mind. It will be found that whatever purifies fortifies also the heart (Religion Quotes)
It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself (Religion Quotes)
The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy (Religion Quotes)
Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony (Religion Quotes)
They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold (Religion Quotes)
Superstition is certainly not the characteristic of this age. Yet some men are bigoted in politics olio are infidels in religion. Ridiculous credulity! (Religion Quotes)
The mathematics are friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of imagination, and purge the mind from error and prejudice (Religion Quotes)
The sentiment of justice is so natural, so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to me independent of all law, all party, all religion (Religion Quotes)
Pure religion may generally be measured by the cheerfulness of its professors, and superstition by the gloom of its victims (Religion Quotes)
To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard! (Religion Quotes)
A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion (Religion Quotes)
Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by (Religion Quotes)
It is with feeling as with religion; if a man really have any, he will have none to speak of (Religion Quotes)
Ah! What a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith! (Religion Quotes)
Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology (Religion Quotes)
If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism (Religion Quotes)
True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine (Religion Quotes)
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting (Religion Quotes)
None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions (Religion Quotes)