God helps us with our headpieces and our hands as well as with our souls and if a man does bits o’ jobs out o’ working hours- builds a oven for ‘s wife to save her from going to the bakehouse, or scrats at his bit o’ garden and makes two potatoes instead o’ one, hes doing more good and he’s just as near to God as if he was running after some preacher and a-praying and a-groaning Adam in the Workshop(Chapter I, page 10) Let ’em follow their consciences, that’s all Adam to Seth (Chapter I, page 10)Īdam had told Wiry Ben that he should let others alone with their religion the way others let him alone as he drinks ale, Seth misunderstood the allusion as a mockery of religion and so Adam responds by saying he is not laughing at anyone’s religion but wishes humans would be guided by their consciences no matter the religion they practice. Irwine then pointed out the need for tolerance in religion and also how he is unfazed by Will Maskery’s aspersions. Irwine in response to Joshua Rann’s suggestion that Will Maskery be excommunicated by the Church for speaking ill of the rector and that the Methodists should not be allowed to preach in Hayslope. The quote above was said by the character of Mr.

Irwine to Joshua Rann (Chapter V, page 57) We must live and let live… in religion as well as in other things. Some of these quotes are said through the characters, while some others are said by the narrator herself. George Eliot in Adam Bede expressed some views that make for noteworthy quotes on various areas like religion, love, education, mourning, and finding beauty in the mundane.

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