Masonic sayings

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◆ The truth is that Masonry is undoubtedly a religious institution, its religion being of that universal kind in which all men agree.

- Albert Mackey99

◆ The religion of Freemasonry is not Christian.

- Albert Mackey99

◆ Freemasonry has taught each man can, by himself work out his own conception of God and thereby achieve salvation.

- J S M Ward99

◆ Masonry's conception of immortality is something for which man must qualify while still in the flesh. Through the fellowship of a moral discipline Masons are taught to qualify for the fellowship of eternal life.

- William F Hammond99

◆ Masonry inculcates faith in immortality as indispensable to moral living and urges its members to qualify for eternal life by the practice of those qualitiesintegrity, fellowship and servicewhich may reasonably be expected to constitute the felicity of a future life.

- William E Hammond99

◆ The Light could not unite with darkness. It but put on the appearance of a human body, and took the name of Christ in the Messiah, only to accommodate itself to the language of the Jews ... He suffered in appearance only ... the person of Jesus having disappeared.

- Albert Pike99

◆ Masonry is regarded as the direct descendant, or as a survival of the mysteries...of Isis and Osiris in Egypt.

- Robert Freke Gould99

◆ Man is God in the making.

- Manley P Hall99

◆ Freemasonry is the survivor of the ancient mysteries - nay, we may go further and call it the guardian of the mysteries.

- J S M Ward99

◆ Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

- Douglas MacArthur99

◆ Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind.

- Andrew Jackson99

◆ From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady, unvarying friend of man.

- Rev Erastus Burr99

◆ As some of us prefer to put it, Masonry is not a religion but Religionnot a church but a worship, in which men of all religions may unite.

- Joseph Fort Newton99

◆ The religion, then, of Masonry is pure Theism.

- Albert Mackey99

◆ Freemasonry is an order whose leading star is philanthropy, and whose principles inculcate an unceasing devotion to the cause of virtue and morality.

- La Fayette99