Religion Quotes - Page 35

• The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, Hands, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.886, Library of Alexandria

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• What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?

  Robert Orben

  What If, Earth, Meek

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• The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.

  Quentin Crisp

  Order, Ideas, Giving

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• The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Ideas, Ten Commandments, Ought

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• Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.

  Max Jacob

  Father, Animal, Men

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• While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside.

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

  Support, Church, Pillars

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• If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Heaven, Feelings

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.395, ShandonPress

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• Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Want, Majesty

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.76

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• What religion is he of?
  Why, he is an Anythingarian.

  Jonathan Swift

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• A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Religious, Jesus, Men

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• All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Real, Sobriety, Needs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.100

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• By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mean, Soul, Spirit

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• Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Character, True Life

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought.
  [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hands, Sacred, Should

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• Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles on human life, which makes the desert blossom as the rose, and which glorifies the common things and common ways of earth. It made of this, the angel of life, a shape of sin and darkness ... Even in the unions which it reluctantly permitted, it degraded and dwarfed the passion which it could not entirely exclude, and permitted it coarsely to exist for the mere necessity of procreation.

  Ouida

  Angel, Passion, Rose

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess to be in search of heaven, but take care not to venture so far in their approximations to it, as entirely to lose sight of the earth; and should their frail vessel be in danger of shipwreck, they will gladly throw their darling vices overboard, as other mariners their treasures, only to fish them up again when the storm is over.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Sight, Heaven

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.97

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• Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual might suit a being as pure, but men are compound animals; and the body too often lords it over the mind.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Spiritual, Animal, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.168

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• Religion is life essential.

  George MacDonald

  Essentials

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• Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.

  James Russell Lowell

  Islands, Promise, Body

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.109

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• Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.

  Joseph Addison

  Circles, Enough, Pleasure

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.60

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• 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.

  Joseph Addison

  Giving, Mind, Cheerful

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• No religion but blasphemes a little.

  Victor Hugo

  Littles

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• To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.

  William Penn

  Watches, Authority, Conviction

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Night, Heaven, Earth

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.248

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• 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.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Philosophy, Two, Needs

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