Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood.
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 places that the eye of heaven visits,
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.
Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
A legal religion is insufficient to bring the soul into harmony with God.
If our so-called facts are changing shadows, they are shadows cast by the light of constant truth.
Superstition! A fatal flaw for a regime whose legitimacy comes entirely from religion.