Edmund Burke Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures... destroyed all balances and counterpoises which serve to fix a state and give it steady direction, and then they melted down the whole into one incongrous mass of mob and democracy... the people, along with their political servitude, have thrown off the yoke of law and morals.

  Edmund Burke

  Summer, Art, Army

• No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.

  Edmund Burke

  Christian, Healing, Voice

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes. Vol. I.[-III.].”, p.33

• 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 charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

  Edmund Burke

  Christian, Character, Healing

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1388, Delphi Classics

• Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

  Edmund Burke

  Church, One Day, Mankind

  Edmund Burke (2010). “On Taste on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution, A Letter to a Noble Lord”, p.160, Cosimo, Inc.

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