Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  God, Giving, Soul

• In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Health, Religion, Liberty

• On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Religion, Firsts, May

• The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Two, Laughing, Religion

• Religion is the pious worship of God.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Religion, Worship, Pious

• Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods.
  [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Religion, Holiness, Piety

• Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought.
  [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hands, Religion, Sacred

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