Religion Quotes by Ludwig Feuerbach
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Ludwig Feuerbach argues that religion mixes blessing with curse and that faith often reflects our deepest wishes, like immortality. He describes religion as a dream of the human mind, where truth and holiness can interchange. He notes that what is religious today may become atheistic tomorrow, showing a fluid boundary between belief and doubt.
![“Faith left to itself … exalts itself above the laws of natural morality. … [B]y so much higher are duties to God than duties towards man[.]” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a2/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_character_faith-left-to-itself-exalts-itself-above_1635152.png)
![“Faith in the future life is … faith in the truth of the imagination, as faith in God is faith in the truth and infinity of human feeling. … [F]aith in God is only faith in the abstract nature of man, so faith in the heavenly life is only faith in the abstract earthly life.” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/348/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_faith-in-the-future-life-is-faith-in-the_1281258.png)
![“In place of [the classic spirit] … entered with Christianity the principle of unlimited, extravagant, fanatical, supranaturalistic subjectivity; a principle intrinsically opposed to that of science, of culture. With Christianity man lost the capability of conceiving himself as a part of Nature.” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a66/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_in-place-of-the-classic-spirit-entered-w_1972749.jpg)
![“The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal; he wishes for the existence of a being who can do everything which is impossible to Nature and reason, therefore such a being exists[.]” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb8/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_existence_the-essence-of-faith-is-the-idea-that-th_247786.png)
![“[F]aith postulates a future, a world where faith has no longer an opposite, or where at least this opposite exists only in order to enhance the self-complacency of triumphant faith. Hell sweetens the joys of happy believers.” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa5/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_faith_f-aith-postulates-a-future-a-world-where_1722947.png)
![“Faith in the power of prayer … is … faith in miraculous power; and faith in miracles is … the essence of faith in general. … [F]aith is nothing else than confidence in the reality of the subjective in opposition to the limitations or laws of Nature and reason, … The specific object of faith…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8e/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_faith_faith-in-the-power-of-prayer-is-faith-in_866518.png)
![“A love which is limited by faith is an untrue love. … [L]ove bound by faith … hides in itself the hatred that belongs to faith; it is only benevolent so long as faith is not injured. … [I]n order to retain the semblance of love, it falls into the most diabolical sophisms, as we see in Augustine's…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d6/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_faith_a-love-which-is-limited-by-faith-is-an-u_3096609.png)
![“[T]he religious expression is: Man is the image of God, or a being akin to God; - for according to religion man does not spring from Nature, but is of divine race, of divine origin. … According to this, God is the father of man, man the son, the child of God. Here is posited at once the…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25a/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_father_t-he-religious-expression-is-man-is-the_470774.jpg)
![“[Faith] makes salvation dependent on itself, not on the fulfilment of common human duties. … [I]nwardly morality is subordinate to faith, so it must also be outwardly, practically … sacrificed to faith. … [A]ctions which are morally bad, but which according to faith are laudable, because they have…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc7/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_character_faith-makes-salvation-dependent-on-itsel_3005693.jpg)
![“The essential act of religion … is prayer. Prayer is all-powerful. … God is to [the pious soul] … the immediate, efficient cause of all natural effects. … He has recourse to prayer in the certainty that he can do more, infinitely more, by prayer, than by all the efforts of reason and all the…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a80/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_miracles_the-essential-act-of-religion-is-prayer_2133324.png)
![“[A]lthough the deeds opposed to love which mark Christian religious history, are in accordance with Christianity, and its antagonists are therefore right in imputing to it the horrible actions resulting from dogmatic creeds; those deeds nevertheless at the same time contradict Christianity…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ab/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_accepting-love_a-lthough-the-deeds-opposed-to-love-whic_414411.jpg)
![“The doctrine of immortality is the final doctrine of religion; … it speaks out what it has hitherto suppressed. If elsewhere the religious soul concerns itself with the existence of another being, here it openly considers only its own existence[.]” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55c/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_clinging-to-self_the-doctrine-of-immortality-is-the-final_2197848.png)
![“Nature is precisely what separates man from God … [R]eligion believes that one day this wall of separation will fall away. One day there will be no Nature, no matter, no body, at least none such as to separate man from God: then there will be only God[.]” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e0/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_apart_nature-is-precisely-what-separates-man-f_2286469.png)
![“Religion annexes to its doctrines a curse and a blessing … Blessed is he that believeth, cursed is he that believeth not. Thus it appeals not to reason, but to feeling, … to the passions of hope and fear. … [T]he fear of hell urges me to believe. Even supposing my belief to be in its origin free…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70b/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_belief_religion-annexes-to-its-doctrines-a-curs_35960.png)
![“It is only in the mode in which faith embodies itself that Christians differ from the followers of other religions. … [T]he nature of faith … is everywhere the same. … All blessings … it accumulates on itself … ; all curses, all hardship and evil it casts on unbelief. … [F]or what God rejects man…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74e/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_christianity_it-is-only-in-the-mode-in-which-faith-em_1471605.png)
![“To the religious spirit … God alone is the cause of all positive effects … [I]t solves … most … questions always with the same answer, making all the operations of Nature … operations of God, … God is the idea which supplies the lack of theory. … The explanation of the inexplicable - which…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/484/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_darkness_to-the-religious-spirit-god-alone-is-the_2423032.png)
![“[F]aith separates God from man, consequently it separates man from man, for God is nothing else than the idea of the species invested with a mystical form, - the separation of God from man is therefore the separation of man from man, the unloosening of the social bond. … Faith isolates God, it…” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc1/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_faith_f-aith-separates-god-from-man-consequent_2557150.png)
