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.
Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.
He had been too near the hard facts of religions as a child to find it soothing.
“I ignore religions,” said Brawne Lamia. “I do not succumb to them.”
I see this wicked creature ordained of God to punish us for our sins and unthankfulness.
The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell.
If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them.