Albert Einstein Quotes About Church

• Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

  Albert Einstein

  Persistence, Catholic, Intellectual

• The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.

  Albert Einstein

  School, Class, Political

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.277, Pickle Partners Publishing

• When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to the German press, which prided itself on the freedom of the press, and it failed me. Until at last the churches stood alone, and that for which I once had little regard earned my respect.

  Albert Einstein

  Business, Intellectual, Society

• Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Struggle, Catholic

• It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Honesty, Integrity

  "Our Goal Unity, but Germans Are Unfit", Free World, no. 4, 370-371, October 8, 1944.

• The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it. Hence it is precisely among the heretics of every age that we find men who were filled with this highest kind of religious feeling and were in many cases regarded by their contemporaries as atheists, sometimes also as saints. Looked at in this light, men like Democritus, Francis of Assisi, and Spinoza are closely akin to one another.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Atheist, Teaching

  Albert Einstein (1995). “Ideas and Opinions”, Three Rivers Press

• A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an intervention on the part of religion into the sphere of science; this is where the struggle of the Church against doctrines of Galileo and Darwin belongs.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Struggle, Mean

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.23, Open Road Media

• About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have resented mass indoctrination. I cannot prove to you there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him, I would be a liar. I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws

  Albert Einstein

  Liars, Believe, Thinking

  "Einstein and the poet". Book by William Hermanns, p. 132, 1983.

• Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Faith, Religious, Men

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