Religion Quotes
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Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system (Religion Quotes)
True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest (Religion Quotes)
A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously (Religion Quotes)
High on the world, see where religion stands and bears the open volume in her hands (Religion Quotes)
These terrors are not to be charged upon religion; they proceed either from the want of religion or from superstitious mistakes about it (Religion Quotes)
Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it (Religion Quotes)
When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm (Religion Quotes)
There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day (Religion Quotes)
Religion is indeed woman’s panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues would weaken her best security (Religion Quotes)
To a woman, the consciousness of being will dressed gives a sense of tranquility which religion fails to bestow (Religion Quotes)
The enduring value of religion is in its challenge to aspiration and hope in the mind of man (Religion Quotes)
Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power (Religion Quotes)
Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss (Religion Quotes)
Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith (Religion Quotes)
Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual (Religion Quotes)
Drink deep or taste not, is a direction fully as applicable to religion, if we would find it a source of pleasure, as it is to knowledge (Religion Quotes)
The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding (Religion Quotes)
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night (Religion Quotes)
Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve (Religion Quotes)
Unwillingness to acknowledge whatever is good in religion foreign to our own has always been a very common trait of human nature; but it seems to me neither generous nor just (Religion Quotes)
It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there is so little of practical and consistent religion among us (Religion Quotes)
There remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion (Religion Quotes)
Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in (Religion Quotes)
In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error (Religion Quotes)
Ambition is a rebel both to the soul and reason, and enforces all laws, all conscience; treads upon religion, and offers violence to nature’s self (Religion Quotes)
Over all the movements of life religion scatters her favors, but reserves the choicest, her divine blessing, for the last hour (Religion Quotes)
I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer (Religion Quotes)
Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming (Religion Quotes)
Religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone (Religion Quotes)
Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves (Religion Quotes)