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 path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
Come poor, lost, undone sinner, come just as you are to Christ.
Democracy and security do not fall from heaven — they come with a cost.
The existence of lover in the pavilion of the Beloved is a sin beyond comparison to any other.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
There is no purgatory for war criminals. They go straight to hell, Ambassador .
Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.
Perhaps the greatest sin in the world today is that men have begun to lose the sense of sin.