Religion Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

— Thomas Carlyle

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

— Thomas Carlyle

Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.

— Thomas Carlyle

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

— Thomas Carlyle

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

— Thomas Carlyle

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.

— Thomas Carlyle

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

— Thomas Carlyle

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

— Thomas Carlyle

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

— Thomas Carlyle

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

— Thomas Carlyle

An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.

— Thomas Carlyle

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest…

— Thomas Carlyle

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

— Thomas Carlyle

It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the…

— Thomas Carlyle

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

— Thomas Carlyle

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what…

— Thomas Carlyle

So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the…

— Thomas Carlyle

The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a…

— Thomas Carlyle

To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some…

— Thomas Carlyle

Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the…

— Thomas Carlyle

Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know…

— Thomas Carlyle

Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts,…

— Thomas Carlyle

One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass…

— Thomas Carlyle

“This green flowery rock-built earth, the trees, the mountains, rivers, many-sounding seas;—that great deep sea of azure that swims overhead; the winds…

— Thomas Carlyle

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

— Thomas Carlyle

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

— Thomas Carlyle

The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.

— Thomas Carlyle

I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.

— Thomas Carlyle

A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few…

— Thomas Carlyle