All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.
Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.
Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.
The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.
The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.
The religions we call false were once true.
The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.
Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.
In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated.
Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.
Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.
The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.
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