John Burroughs Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

  John Burroughs

  Science, Joy, Curiosity

  "What Liberals Believe: Thousands of Quotes on Why America Needs to Be Rescued from Greedy Corporations, Homophobes, Racists, Imperialists, Xenophobes, and Religious Extremists". Book by William Martin, William Patrick Martin (p. 492), 2008.

• One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure, in the common, the near at hand-to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.

  John Burroughs

  Life, Nature, Lying

  John Burroughs (1924). “Complete writings of John Burroughs”

• Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

  John Burroughs

  Years, Civilization, Religion

  John Burroughs (1904). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

• Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.

  John Burroughs

  Mother, Religious, Nature

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.223, Syracuse University Press

• The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.

  John Burroughs

  God, Religion, Monsters

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