Editing Oliver Goldsmith (section)

=== Religious beliefs ===
Goldsmith was an Anglican,<ref>{{Cite web |date=3 April 2012 |title=After Rowan: The Coherence and Future of Anglicanism |url=http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/04/04/3470498.htm |website=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]}}</ref> and famously said "as I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the taylor, so I take my religion from the priest".<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page: Quotes on Oliver Goldsmith |url=http://www.samueljohnson.com/goldsmith.html}}</ref>

Thomas Hurst wrote that Goldsmith "recognised with joy the existence and perfections of a Deity. For the Christian revelation also, he was always understood to have a profound respect – knowing that it was the source of our best hopes and noblest expectations."<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Evans |first1=John |title=Goldsmith |year=1993 |isbn=978-1-349-23095-2 |page=23 |chapter=Goldsmith and Religion |doi=10.1007/978-1-349-23093-8_5}}</ref>[[File:Plaque To Oliver Goldsmith.JPG|thumb|left|A plaque to Oliver Goldsmith at the [[Temple Church]] in London, where he was buried.]]