George Eliot Quotes About Religion

• Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Taken, Fate

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.269, ShandonPress

• If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Squirrels, History

  "Middlemarch". Volume 1,

• I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Lying, Religion

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.429

• Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.

  George Eliot

  Self, Religion, All Things

• If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Heaven, Feelings

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.395, ShandonPress

• ... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Pride, Men

  Middlemarch Ch. 21

• When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Mind, Religion

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.218, Penguin

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