Religion Quotes by Edmund Burke

Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.

— Edmund Burke

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

— Edmund Burke

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

— Edmund Burke

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

— Edmund Burke

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

— Edmund Burke

Where mystery begins religion ends.

— Edmund Burke

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

— Edmund Burke

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity

— Edmund Burke

“Religion, by ‘consecrating’ the state, gives the people an added impetus to respect and regard their regime.”

— Edmund Burke

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

— Edmund Burke

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

— Edmund Burke

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

— Edmund Burke

The writers against religion, while they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

— Edmund Burke

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

— Edmund Burke

Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive,…

— Edmund Burke

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended…

— Edmund Burke

When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all…

— Edmund Burke

I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both:…

— Edmund Burke

Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state…

— Edmund Burke

The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these…

— Edmund Burke

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty…

— Edmund Burke

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent,…

— Edmund Burke

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing…

— Edmund Burke

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

— Edmund Burke

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that…

— Edmund Burke

Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance…

— Edmund Burke

I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were…

— Edmund Burke

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity,…

— Edmund Burke

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in…

— Edmund Burke