3 Ernest Renan Quotes on Religion

Ernest Renan quotes on religion

5. Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

12. Man makes holy what he believes.

13. Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.