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.
Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion.
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes.
To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
Any creed or ideology or religion must be known and tested by its fruits, and its fruits are people.
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.