The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
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 aim of the law is not to punish sins, but is to prevent certain external results.
He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.
To appreciate heaven well
'Tis good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.
Religion as a whole is but a form of loyalty to the interests of English property.
As is often the case—poor economic conditions and illness make a person superstitious.
As long as you will have a feeling of shame, you will not lightly commit sins.
That is the bitterest of all, — to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either.
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.