11 Edmund Burke Quotes on Religion

Edmund Burke quotes on religion

7. 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.

27. Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.

32. Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

45. The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

71. 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.

76. Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.

93. Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

108. Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

130. Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

133. 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.

161. Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.