Religion Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

12 Religion quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

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Thomas B. Macaulay’s brief set of twelve reflections serves as a tidy starting point for anyone curious about his take on faith. Though modest in size, the entries convey his clear, earnest tone.

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The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.

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Complete self-devotion is woman's part.

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A dominant religion is never ascetic.

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A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.

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Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.

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I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest…

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A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.

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The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.

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A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion…

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To carry the spirit of peace into war is a weak and cruel policy. When an extreme case calls for that remedy…

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The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into…

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The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in…

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The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.

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The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines…

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Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north, With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red? And wherefore doth…

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Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

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