Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, War, Writing

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.30

• Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Religion, Crime, Thousand

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.103

• Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Philosophy, Humble, Bully

• There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Two, Religion, Atheism

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.96

• It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess to be in search of heaven, but take care not to venture so far in their approximations to it, as entirely to lose sight of the earth; and should their frail vessel be in danger of shipwreck, they will gladly throw their darling vices overboard, as other mariners their treasures, only to fish them up again when the storm is over.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Sight, Heaven

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.97

• Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual might suit a being as pure, but men are compound animals; and the body too often lords it over the mind.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Spiritual, Animal, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.168

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