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 is more conservative than any other aspect of human life.
Religion & Govt. will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
Our faiths are similar — it's merely our religions that may differ.
Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable.
Again and again our foe, religion, has given birth to deeds sinful and unholy.
Granted, religion is wishful thinking, but there is no other kind of thinking.
In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.