Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no 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.
With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.
The best and the worst things that men do they do in the name of a religion.
All religions urge us to follow Dharma, to always speak the truth and not to torment others.
You are better than your god. You are better than your religion.
One can follow any religion, one can follow any practice or path, but one must be humane.
The popish religion is now unknown to the law of this country.
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
Superior to all the religions is the Love of God and superior to all types of worship is seeing God.
For the man whose religion claims to spread truth, priest, your lies are strikingly vulgar.