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 human mind has an adequate knowledge of the eternal and infinite essence of God.
Religions have been basis of the tyranny of kings and sultans.
His religion at best is an anxious wish, — like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven,
Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.