I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.
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.
As thou hast created me out of mingled air and glitter, I thank thee for it.
If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
A kick that scarce would move a horse
May kill a sound divine.
I have been there, and still would go;
'T is like a little heaven below.