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.
The sin against hope: the most deadly of all, and perhaps the most accepted, the most cherished.
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
To abstain from sin when a man cannot sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Yes, every sin is a mistake, and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool."
Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin.
With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.
A man's religion should be more in his life than on his lips.