Religion Quotes by George Eliot

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

— George Eliot

Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.

— George Eliot

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.

— George Eliot

“the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.”

— George Eliot

Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the…

— George Eliot

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the…

— George Eliot

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

— George Eliot

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

— George Eliot

Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments,…

— George Eliot

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress…

— George Eliot

“Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his…

— George Eliot

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and…

— George Eliot

the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for…

— George Eliot

What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding…

— George Eliot

If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a…

— George Eliot

“For continual suffering had annihilated religious faith within me: to the utterly miserable –the unloving and the unloved –there is no religion…

— George Eliot

May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one…

— George Eliot

I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people…

— George Eliot

“As the stone which has been kicked by generations of clowns may come by curious little links of effect under the eyes…

— George Eliot

How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root…

— George Eliot

The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of…

— George Eliot

“But her feeling towards the vulgar rich was a sort of religious hatred: they had probably made all their money out of…

— George Eliot

“Religious doctrines had taken no hold on Hetty’s mind. She was one of those numerous people who have had godfathers and godmothers,…

— George Eliot

“We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches…

— George Eliot

“religious feeling; but in Miss Brooke's case, religion alone would have determined it; and Celia mildly acquiesced in all her sister's sentiments,…

— George Eliot

“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual…

— George Eliot

“The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent,…

— George Eliot

“If you could only speak the devil fair enough, he might save you the cost of the doctor. Such strange lingering echoes…

— George Eliot

“But not more than what’s in the Bible, Aunt,” said Dinah. “Yes, and the Bible too, for that matter,” Mrs. Poyser rejoined,…

— George Eliot

“Certainly those determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and noble impulse struggling…

— George Eliot

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

— George Eliot

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains,…

— George Eliot

“My spirit is too weak; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship…

— George Eliot

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and…

— George Eliot

When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much.…

— George Eliot