Masonic Quotes - Page 3

• Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of sympathy and services, which, by the terms of our definition, it seeks to exhibit now on a small scale.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Oasis, League, Definitions

  14 Copy quote

• The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues taught by symbols, allegories, and lectures based upon fundamental truths, the observance of which tends to promote stability of character, conservatism, morality and good citizenship.

  William Howard Taft

  Philosophy, Character, Fundamentals

  23 Copy quote

• It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many Freemasons and have been able in that way to judge the tree by its fruit. I know of your high ideals. I have seen that you hold your meetings in the presence of the open Bible, and I know that men who observe that formality have high sentiments of citizenship, of worth, and character. That is the strength of our Commonwealth and nation.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Men, Judging

  11 Copy quote

• There is no doubt in my mind that Masonry is the cornerstone of America.

  Dave Thomas

  America, Doubt, Mind

  7 Copy quote

• Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Tools, Gains, Flaws

  4 Copy quote

• Masonic ideas are the precious jewels of Speculative Masons; the should be kept bright and sparkling for all the brethren to see and to admire. As such, they should be the special care of Masonic leaders particularly those who teach and interpret the philosophy of Freemasonry.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Philosophy, Jewels, Ideas

  12 Copy quote

• Nowhere does one become more convinced of the strong hold which Freemasonry takes upon the minds and lives of those aging workers in the Craft who have attained its highest honors and of their firm belief in the power of its teachings to purify the soul of men and raise them to a new dignity and to greater heights of spirituality and practical morality.

  George Washington

  Strong, Teaching, Men

  23 Copy quote

• Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a slow evolution through long time, unfolding its beauty as it grew. Indeed, it was like one of its own cathedrals which one generation of builders wrought and vanished, and another followed, until, amidst vicissitudes of time and change, of decline and revival, the order itself became a temple of Freedom and Fraternity.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Men, Order, Long

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.124, Lulu Press, Inc

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living, and displays the conduct which is pleasing and acceptable to God. The doctrines and examples which distinguish the Order are obvious, and suited to every capacity. It is impossible for the most fastidious Mason to misunderstand, however he might slight or neglect them. It is impossible for the most superficial brother to say that he is unable to comprehend the plain precepts and the unanswerable arguments which are furnished by Freemasonry.

  William Howard Taft

  Brother, Blessed, Men

  25 Copy quote

• A secret is powerful when it is empty. People often mention the "Masonic secret." What on earth is the Masonic secret? No one can tell. As long as it remains empty it can be filled up with every possible notion, and it has power.

  Umberto Eco

  Powerful, Filled Up, Long

  "Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction No. 197". Interviewed with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.theparisreview.org. February 20, 2016.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.

  William Howard Taft

  Masonry, Obligation

  52 Copy quote

• Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Civilization, Independence, Progress

  99 Copy quote

• Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.

  A. E. Waite

  World, May, Firsts

  18 Copy quote

• What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind it self is still in a period of youth. We are only now beginning to acquire a consciousness of the social aim of civilization, which is man's perfection. Such perfection can never end with physical perfection, which is only the means to the end or spiritual perfection.

  Albert Pike

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

  25 Copy quote

• Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.

  Anthony Hecht

  Children, Parent, Mystery

  16 Copy quote

• Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience of mankind. But Freemasonry, embracing a wider range and having a nobler object in view, namely, the cultivation and improvement of the human mind, may with more propriety be called a science, inasmuch as, availing itself of the terms of the former, it inculcates the principles of the purest morality, though its lessons are for the most part veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.

  William Howard Taft

  Art, Views, Mind

  10 Copy quote

• The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.

  Charles Taze Russell

  Stones, Next, Temples

  16 Copy quote

• To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General (33rd Degree Masons), we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees: 'The Masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine.'

  Albert Pike

  Degrees, Doctrine, May

  50 Copy quote

• Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promote of private virtue and public prosperity, I shall always be happy to advance the interests of the Society, and to be considered by them as a deserving brother.

  George Washington

  Brother, Principles, Prosperity

  George Washington, William Wright Abbot, Philander D. Chase, Dorothy Twohig, Mark A. Mastromarino (1996). “The Papers of George Washington: July-November 1790”

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am very glad to have this particular opportunity of saying a word about some of the things in which we agree with our Masonic friends, because we are speaking in a building dedicated to Masonry, and we also are Masons. I am a Freemason.

  Charles Taze Russell

  Opportunity, Building, Masonry

  38 Copy quote

• Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most powerful incentives to goodness.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Powerful, Ties, Connections

  9 Copy quote

• The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.

  Minnie Driver

  Hollywood, Bizarre, Aspect

  "Minnie the minx: She used to be an English public school mouse; now she's a Hollywood babe" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 1997.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• So important , indeed, is it (Light), and so much does it pervade with its influence the whole Masonic system, that Freemasonry itself anciently received, among other appellations, that of Lux, or Light, to signify that it is to be regarded as that sublime doctrine of Divine Truth by which the path of him who has attained it is to be illuminated in his pilgrimage of life.

  Albert Mackey

  Light, Sublime, Important

  Albert Mackey (2010). “The Symbolism of Freemasonry”, p.129, Andrews UK Limited

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.

  Albert Pike

  Teaching, Temples, Dogma

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Because of this ever increasing discernment of the true Mason he/she will find more efficient ways to apply brotherly love, relief and truth.

  George Washington

  Way, Relief, Brotherly Love

  6 Copy quote