Religion Quotes
Religion is a page where believers and unbelievers share space. Shakespeare and Milton lead, but Robert Ingersoll and the biologist Jerry Coyne are close behind, and the sourced favourites lean sceptical: Bertrand Russell in Sceptical Essays (1928) on moralists and Hell, Bierce in 1911 calling religion a daughter of Hope and Fear.
Three entries are flagged. “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep” is credited to the missionary Jim Elliot, and the notes call it a paraphrase of the English clergyman Philip Henry (1631–1696). Newton’s remark that he could calculate the motions of heavenly bodies but not the madness of the people is disputed, and it is usually tied to the South Sea stock bubble. A line about Earth and Heaven credited to David Hare is flagged misattributed.
Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.
Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.
For all we know
Of what the blessed do above
Is, that they sing, and that they love.