Her religion was that of all artists — obedience to the laws of her creative art.
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.
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.
Christ, then, raised men from religion as a bondage to religion as a freedom.
Religion amplifies the good and evil tendencies of individual souls.
There are things worth being loyal to, surely. Coffee, for instance, or one’s religion.
Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them.