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.
Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
The ethical element of religion has ever been its truly vital and quickening force.
Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion.
Every Muslim must rise to defend his religion. The wind of faith is blowing.
In religion, as at play, one begins with being dupe, and ends with being knave.
Islam is fundamentally in its very nature a natural religion.