What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“My spirit is too weak; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“For continual suffering had annihilated religious faith within me: to the utterly miserable –the unloving and the unloved –there is no religion… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“But her feeling towards the vulgar rich was a sort of religious hatred: they had probably made all their money out of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“As the stone which has been kicked by generations of clowns may come by curious little links of effect under the eyes… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“If you could only speak the devil fair enough, he might save you the cost of the doctor. Such strange lingering echoes… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Certainly those determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and noble impulse struggling… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial… — George Eliot Copy Share
“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.” — George Eliot Copy Share
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt… — George Eliot Copy Share
