Joseph Joubert Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Men, Religion

• Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

  Joseph Joubert

  Men, Heaven, Religion

• One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Men, Joy, Religion

• Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.

  Joseph Joubert

  Fire, Religion, Example

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

  Joseph Joubert

  Law, Discipline, Religion

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.

  Joseph Joubert

  Religion, Multitudes

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.98

• Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

  Joseph Joubert

  Soul, Religion, Superstitions

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Mother, Country, Nursing

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

  Joseph Joubert

  Religion, Virtue

• The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

  Joseph Joubert

  Religion, Iliad

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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