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 sinner must feel far worse before he ever has a right to feel any better.
There is no true love for the sinner without hatred for his sin.
One God, one law, one element,
And one far-off divine event,
To which the whole creation moves.
Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
The woes of man; Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming.