Quotes about Religion
Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
- Henry David Thoreau
In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.
- Henry David Thoreau
Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.
- Henry David Thoreau
Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Men can make an idol of the Bible.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.
- James Freeman Clarke