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.
Religion's Meaning when I would recall,
Love is to me the plainest Word of all.
The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism.
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.
The basis of religion is our affection for the household of the holy Prophet.
Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.