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.
My religion makes no sense
and does not help me
therefore I pursue it.
I'm not gonna rule out anything, but we're not gonna have a registry based on a religion.
"Human religion is always like this: it begins by serving God and it ends by killing people."
I take love as my religion wherever its caravans lead, for love is my religion and my faith.
(The bomber) is an infidel who has sold himself to the enemies of his religion and his country.
For a religion that wants to kill people, after eighty years, I will remove my hijab.
I know you don't want to talk religion, but that's all I am is religion.
Men are waiting; they judge the truth of religion according to its fruitfulness in social life.