Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Relever des bagatelles—To give importance to trifles.

Relicta non bene parmula—Having ingloriously left my shield behind. Hor.

Religentem esse oportet, religiosum nefas—A man should be religious, not superstitious. Quoted by Aul. Gell.

Religion and education are not a match for evil without the grace of God. Haydon.

Religion and morality, as they now stand, 35 compose a practical code of misery and servitude.... How would morality, dressed up in stiff stays and finery, start from her own disgusting image, should she look into the mirror of Nature! Shelley.

Religion bids man prefer the endurance of a lesser evil before a greater, and nature itself does no less. South.

Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, / And unawares morality expires. Pope.

Religion cannot change, though we do. Jeremy Taylor.

Religion cannot rise above the state of the votary. Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. Emerson.

Religion contains infinite sadness. If we are 40 to love God, he must be in distress (lit., in need of help). Novalis. See Matt., xxvii. 46.