Edmund Burke Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Mind, Religion

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

• Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Life, Art

• Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

  Edmund Burke

  Religion, Comfort, Source

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.560, Transaction Publishers

• 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 of the Protestant religion.

  Edmund Burke

  Religion, Principles, Resistance

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

• When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.

  Edmund Burke

  Christian, Hypocrite, House

  Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.277, University of Chicago Press

• The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

  Edmund Burke

  Religion, Careful, Against Religion

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].”, p.7

• 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 His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

  Edmund Burke

  Perfection, Religion, World

  Edmund Burke, Robert MONTGOMERY (Author of “Satan.”.) (1853). “Edmund Burke: being first principles selected from his writings. With an introductory essay by Robert Montgomery”, p.232

• Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.

  Edmund Burke

  Humble, Men, Mind

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.231

• Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat.

  Edmund Burke

  Independent, Men, Law

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.26

• True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

  Edmund Burke

  Religion, Foundation, Fabric

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