Joseph Joubert Religion Quotations

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

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

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

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

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

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

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

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