5 Daniel Defoe Quotes on Religion

Daniel Defoe quotes on religion

2. Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!

7. Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.

12. In their religion they are so uneven, That each man goes his own byway to heaven.

13. And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

22. For I cannot think that God Almighty ever made them so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.