Edmund Burke Quotes on Religion
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I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.
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Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
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All protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
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Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.