Religion isn't invented by man. Men are invented by religion.
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.
We must constantly remind ourselves that whatever our religion or creed, we are all one people.
The heart is the part of man which God chiefly notices in religion.
Empires come and go; so do ideologies and even religions, but war marches on through it all.
My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.
Religion always is and always has been at the root of every world-movement.
Revealed religion is manifested religion, because in it God has become wholly manifest.