Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Religion, Awake, Hippopotamus

• The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Pain, History, Religion

  "History of England". Volume I, Chapter II, 1849-1861.

• The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Real, Heart, Light

• A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Religion, Society, Church

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