Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Church

I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.

I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.

Henry David Thoreau

Church, May, Christ

Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.47, Xist Publishing

The tavern will compare favorably with the church.

Henry David Thoreau

Church, Taverns, Compare

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine.

Henry David Thoreau

Perception, Church, Doe

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.202, Graphic Arts Books

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Soul, Church

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.70, Delphi Classics

The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad.

Henry David Thoreau

Prayer, Religion, Church

Henry David Thoreau (1868). “Excursions”, p.108