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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.

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I think and know that religion is not race-specific,”

Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze

In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms

Elizabeth Alexander

I always remind people of our firmly rooted policy of religious tolerance. We have no intention of favoring one religion at the expense of another.

Ahmadu Bello

I draw inspiration from all ancient cultures, particularly those that address human themes: tolerance, beauty, religion—cultures that elevate the human soul

Abdoulaye Konaté

The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things... after the weather.

Billy Connolly

I don`t want the reduction of religion to aesthetics, but the abolition of aesthetics & incorporating of art with the Word of God. (p. 7)

Northrop Frye Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003)

Secularism has shown that it can be just as murderous, just as lethal … as religion.

Karen Armstrong NOW interview (2002)

I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.

Bertrand Russell

I'm all for offending people's religion. I think it should be offended at every opportunity

Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins: Atheist academic calls for religion 'to be offended at every opportunity (2016)

[B]y awakening the Heroic that slumbers in every heart, can any Religion gain followers.

Thomas Carlyle Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840)

[Islam is] the only religion that acts like the mafia that will fucking kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture or write the wrong book.

Bill Maher

Somehow, this hatred should come to an end. I am a believer of nonviolence. I believe we all are one, whichever religion we belong to.

Sunil Dutt

Looks didn’t last forever and she wasn’t ready for religion yet. Money was kind of a good compromise, staked up somewhere between cosmetics and eternity.

Edward St. Aubyn

If we take a firm stand in defense of our religion and our faith, we will be in Paradise. We are martyrs. We seek martyrdom.

Abla al-Kahlawi

We saw that a lot of bands in Florida seemed to have more of a darker, anti-religion thing going on, so we decided to do the gore thing with the art and lyrics.

Alex Webster

As Christians,we should attempt to emulate Christ, love one another irrespective of religion, tribe or ideology, and also love our country

Rotimi Amaechi

[People] who develop forms of unaffiliated 'self-religion,' a deep but vague and unorganized interest in the sacred.

Massimo Introvigne

Mysterious enthusiasm, Love !
The heart's supremest power;—which doth combine
Within itself religion, poetry,
And heroism.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

the people who colonized us used religion as an excuse, as an entry point, into this country.

Fred Khumalo

“Democracy is not perfect, but it remains the best system of government for giving every Nigerian a voice, regardless of tribe, religion or social status,”

Usman Bello Kumo

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