Religion Quotes by T. S. Eliot

13 Religion quotes by T. S. Eliot

Eliot’s verses often echo with solemn reverence. In 13 succinct lines he fuses literary mastery with spiritual reflection, inviting readers to contemplate the sacred amid modern turbulence.

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Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come…

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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

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The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

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The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave…

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O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On…

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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete…

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Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the…

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The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how…

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Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and…

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The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to…

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