Quote by Samuel Butler
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian r

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

Every mans work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler

Category:
architecture
Read Quote

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Home
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Religion
category

Every fundamentalist movement Ive studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion. – Karen Armstrong

Category:
Religion

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Category:
Religion

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust. – Barack Obama

Category:
Religion

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. – Abraham Lincoln, quoted in What Great Men Think Of Religion by Ira Cardiff

Category:
Religion

Random Quotes

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. – Francoise Sagan

Category:
Jealousy

More than anything else, let me be clear – we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. Thats what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to. – Mike Pence

Category:
Freedom

One good thing can be said for inflation: without it there would be no football. – Marty Ragaway

Category:
Inflation

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. – Samuel McChord Crothers

Category:
amazing