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Religion Quotes by Edmund Burke
- Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
- Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
- Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
- A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins…
- The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
- Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
- The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism…
- Where mystery begins religion ends.
- I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not…
- Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian…
- The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in…
- The writers against religion, while they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
- Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of…
- Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity
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