George Eliot Quotes about Heaven

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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

George Eliot

Heaven, Earth, Fit

George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.317

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

George Eliot

Heaven, Atheism, Helping

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.144, 谷月社

If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

George Eliot

Religious, Heaven, Feelings

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.395, ShandonPress

I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.

George Eliot

Heaven, Public Opinion, Belief

Robert Coles, George Eliot, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope (2007). “Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life”, p.31, Modern Library

How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

George Eliot

Heaven, Mind, Earth

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2966, Delphi Classics