How much hatred and stupidity men succeed in packing up decorously and labelling “Religion”?
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 greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
Religion is the best armour in the world, but the worst cloak.
I never really hated a one true God, but the God of the people I hated.
In the absence of choice and knowledge, cultures often turn to religion.
Religion is the tie that connects man with his Creator, and holds him to His throne.
You have no security for a man who has no religious principle.
Human things must be known to be loved; but Divine things must be loved to be known.
Religions die when they are proven to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly.