Religion Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

You cannot separate charity and religion.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

— Charles Caleb Colton

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason.

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.

— Charles Caleb Colton

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men;…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child;…

— Charles Caleb Colton

It was served of the Jesuits, that they constantly inculcated a thorough contempt of worldly things in their doctrines, but eagerly grasped…

— Charles Caleb Colton

It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another;…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for…

— Charles Caleb Colton