John Tyndall: Quotes about religion

John Tyndall was British scientist. Explore interesting quotes on religion.
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“Religion lives not by the force and aid of dogma, but because it is ingrained in the nature of man. …the moulds have been broken and reconstructed over and over again, but the molten ore abides in the ladle of humanity.”

John Tyndall

New Fragments (1892)
Context: Religion lives not by the force and aid of dogma, but because it is ingrained in the nature of man.... the moulds have been broken and reconstructed over and over again, but the molten ore abides in the ladle of humanity.<!--p. 29

Religion , Nature

“Christ found the religions of the world oppressed almost to suffocation by the load of formulas piled upon them by the priesthood. He removed the load, and rendered respiration free.”

John Tyndall

New Fragments (1892)
Context: Christ found the religions of the world oppressed almost to suffocation by the load of formulas piled upon them by the priesthood. He removed the load, and rendered respiration free. He cared little for forms and ceremonies, which had ceased to be the raiment of man's spiritual life. To that life he looked, and it he sought to restore.<!--pp. 11-12

World , Religion , Christ

“[O]f the future form of religion little can be predicted. Its main concern may possibly be to purify, elevate, and brighten the life that now is, instead of treating it as the more or less dismal vestibule of a life that is to come.”

John Tyndall

p, 125
New Fragments (1892)

Life , Religion , Future

“Superstition may be defined as constructive religion which has grown incongruous with intelligence.”

John Tyndall

Science and Man.
Fragments of Science, Vol. II (1879)

Religion , Intelligence

“The yoke of religion has not always been easy, nor its burden light—a result arising, in part from the ignorance of the world at large, but more especially from the mistakes of those who had the charge and guidance of a great spiritual force, and who guided it blindly.”

John Tyndall

p, 125
New Fragments (1892)

World , Religion , Light , Parting