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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.

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Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.

Richard Cecil Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

If you are seeking the comforts of religion rather than the glory of our Lord, you are on the wrong track. The Comforter meets us unsought in the path of duty.

Richard Cecil Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship.

Richard Cecil Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

I learn the depth to which I have sunk from the length of the chain let down to up-draw me. I ascertain the mightiness of the ruin by examining the machinery for restoration.

Henry Melvill Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.

William Mountford Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

All noblest things are religious,— not temples and martyrdoms only, but the best books, pictures, poetry, statues, and music.

William Mountford Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty In Praise of Philosophy (1963)

Quit crossing your fingers, Wim; the only thing that’ll ever save you from is the respect of educated men.

Vernor Vinge The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (2001)

Sin is the insurrection and rebellion of the heart against God; it turns from Him, and turns against Him; it takes up arms against God.

Richard Alleine Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Always carry with you into the pulpit a sense of the immense consequences which may depend on your full and faithful presentation of the truth.

Richard Salter Storrs Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.

Nathaniel Emmons Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

It seems that these men are primitive enough to have a marked tendency toward superstition—ascribing things they don’t understand to supernatural intervention.

Hal Clement Assumption Unjustified (1946)

When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.

William R. Alger

There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle.

Dejan Stojanovic The Sun Watches the Sun (1999)

People [who belong in this environment] look for a path in the heavens for the simple reason that they have lost their way on earth.

Georgi Plekhanov

Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ.

John Berridge

Hell is that state where one has ceased to hope.

A. J. Cronin The Keys of the Kingdom (1941)

Self-loathing is a natural and a necessary consequence of those intellectual views of self that are implied in repentance.

Charles Grandison Finney Lectures on Systematic Theology (1878)

Until creationists accept that their claims must be falsifiable and show how they could be falsified, creationism cannot be said to be a scientific theory.

Mordechai Ben-Ari Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005)

The manic lover does not love his beloved as much as God loves the repentant soul.

Nectarios of Aegina

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