Religious Sayings
42 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 42 authors
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There is no nation in the world that has more need of religion than the English.
My own mind is my own church.
It is a melancholy truth; yet a truth it is, that women, as well as men, without a proper education, will ever be a prey to their prejudices.
For in good faith, I never had mind to meddle in any such matters, but to serve God and the King.
Men despise religion; they hate it, and fear to be in it.
Every man is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
It is a shameful thing for a Christian to be ignorant of the works of nature.
God gave him reason, and he gave him choice; and now he blames God for his own choice.
I never saw, hear, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
God forgive you, but I never can.
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
The Holy Roman Empire is neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
The doctrine that the world is governed by perfection was introduced to exclude the arbitrary will of God.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.
The church is the true compass by which we must guide ourselves in these heathen lands.
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds…
If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God.
I know myself, and I have such a sense of religion that I shall never do anything which I would not do before the whole world; but I am alarmed at the very thoughts of being in the society of people, during my journey, whose mode of thinking is so en…