Alexander Pope Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

  Alexander Pope

  Hope, Spring, Men

  An Essay on Man Epistle 1, l. 95 (1733)

• Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.

  Alexander Pope

  Feelings, Religion, Principles

• An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

  Alexander Pope

  Atheist, Hypocrite, Mad

  Alexander Pope, Owen Ruffhead (1807). “Poetry and letters-1807”, p.109

• An honest man's the noblest work of God.

  Alexander Pope

  Honesty, Character, Men

  An Essay on Man Epistle 4, l. 248 (1734)

• A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

  Alexander Pope

  Fate, Religion, Finals

  Alexander Pope (1999). “The Dunciad: In Four Books”, Longman Publishing Group

• Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Men, Psychology

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 1 (1733) See Charron 1

• So upright Quakers please both man and God.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Religion, Quaker

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.331

• Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

  Alexander Pope

  Religion, Gardening, Genius

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Burlington' (1731) l. 57

• Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

  Alexander Pope

  Fire, Religion, Veils

  'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 4, l. 649

• There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

  Alexander Pope

  People, Religion, Together

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.128

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