Religion Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

— Benjamin Franklin

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

— Benjamin Franklin

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

— Benjamin Franklin

Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.

— Benjamin Franklin

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

— Benjamin Franklin

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

— Benjamin Franklin

Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it

— Benjamin Franklin

A good example is the best sermon.

— Benjamin Franklin

A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

— Benjamin Franklin

A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under…

— Benjamin Franklin

The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

— Benjamin Franklin

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

— Benjamin Franklin

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

— Benjamin Franklin

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

— Benjamin Franklin

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

— Benjamin Franklin

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious…

— Benjamin Franklin

Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us…

— Benjamin Franklin

Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes,…

— Benjamin Franklin

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not…

— Benjamin Franklin

It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever…

— Benjamin Franklin

When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God…

— Benjamin Franklin

Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of…

— Benjamin Franklin

Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found…

— Benjamin Franklin

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He…

— Benjamin Franklin

Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he…

— Benjamin Franklin

Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the…

— Benjamin Franklin

“The Great Spirit, who made all things, made everything for some use, and whatever use he design'd anything for, that use it…

— Benjamin Franklin

History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage…

— Benjamin Franklin

Do you sincerely declare that you love mankind in general, of what profession or religion soever? Do you think any person ought…

— Benjamin Franklin

Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human…

— Benjamin Franklin

This modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in possession…

— Benjamin Franklin

Every other sect supposes itself in possession of the truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong. Like…

— Benjamin Franklin

“A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical…

— Benjamin Franklin

“I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that he made the world, and governed it by his providence; that…

— Benjamin Franklin

“We sometimes disputed, and very fond we were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another, which disputatious turn, by the…

— Benjamin Franklin

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

— Benjamin Franklin

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.

— Benjamin Franklin

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

— Benjamin Franklin

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

— Benjamin Franklin

Faith is confirmed by the heart, confessed by the tongue, and acted upon by the body

— Benjamin Franklin