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.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Religion has no more place in science than science has in religion.
Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.
The sect of lovers is distinct from all others,
Lovers have a religion and a faith of their own.
Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.