Joseph Joubert - Religion Quotes

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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Joseph Joubert

Religion is a fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.

Joseph Joubert

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

Joseph Joubert

Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

Joseph Joubert

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

Joseph Joubert

Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.

Joseph Joubert

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

Joseph Joubert