Thomas Fuller Quotes

Much prayer, but no piety.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Not merely for country, not merely for humanity, not only for civilization, but for the religion of our Lord itself

My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.

Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.

It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a vain and flippant way, as many are prone to do.

I'm a good Catholic girl in the way that Madonna is. In the sense that I'm not that good at all.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.