The orator is thereby an orator that he keeps his feet ever on a fact.
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.
I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmæ.
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever dangerous.
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
It requires moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.
Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.
In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
Religion is the only metaphysics that the multitude can understand and adopt.