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.
Sin is resistance, in the name of God, to the creative work of God which seeks to include us all.
The sins of others can never become the measure of your own.
Religion is a species of mental disease. It has always had a pathological reaction on mankind.
Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.
I have always thought there might be a lot of cash in starting a new religion.
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.