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.
No salvation outside of humanity! These words contain the whole of the religion of the future.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion.
Let not one bring Learning, another Diligence, another Religion, but every one bring all.
The farther men get from God, the farther they advance into the knowledge of religions.
Lukewarmness I account a sin
As great in love as in religion.