Religion Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

— Henry David Thoreau

What is religion? That which is never spoken.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have great faith in a seed.

— Henry David Thoreau

Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.

— Henry David Thoreau

Your religion is where your love is.

— Henry David Thoreau

We must have infinite faith in each other.

— Henry David Thoreau

We are older by faith than by experience.

— Henry David Thoreau

Faith never makes a confession.

— Henry David Thoreau

Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.

— Henry David Thoreau

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have…

— Henry David Thoreau

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

— Henry David Thoreau

“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise...”

— Henry David Thoreau

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

— Henry David Thoreau

For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.

— Henry David Thoreau

Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns.

— Henry David Thoreau

“I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its…

— Henry David Thoreau

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we…

— Henry David Thoreau

A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above.…

— Henry David Thoreau

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

— Henry David Thoreau

My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and…

— Henry David Thoreau

The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid…

— Henry David Thoreau

We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The doctrines of despair, of spiritual or political tyranny or servitude, were never taught by such as shared the serenity of nature.”

— Henry David Thoreau

A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and…

— Henry David Thoreau

For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is…

— Henry David Thoreau

I know that some will have hard thoughts of me, when they hear their Christ named beside my Buddha, yet I am…

— Henry David Thoreau

A man's real faith is never contained in his creed, nor is his creed an article of his faith. The last is…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but…

— Henry David Thoreau

He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe…

— Henry David Thoreau

A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast,…

— Henry David Thoreau

If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a…

— Henry David Thoreau

“There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its…

— Henry David Thoreau

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition,…

— Henry David Thoreau

It would be worthy of the age to print together the collected Scriptures or Sacred Writings of the several nations, the Chinese,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep; it was the opportunity to be ignorant that I improved. It suggested…

— Henry David Thoreau

The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days…

— Henry David Thoreau

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

— Henry David Thoreau