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.
All jokes about religion cause offence, so it's pointless apologising for them.
He soon retires (i.e., into a cloister) who finds religion late.
There is no science without religion, and there is no religion without science.
Whoever is in power needs to be told the truth and that is the basis of all religions.
A woman by whom we are loved is a vanity; a woman whom we love is a religion.
We celebrated two holidays that day, one for the religion and the other for the gold medal.
Zealotry is when the letter of religion is mistaken for its spirit.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Modernism is the attempt to permeate religion with middle-class reason.