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.
I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Superstition is still king of most of the world, though often it calls itself Religion.
Freedom of religion, restricted only from acts of trespass on that of others.
The sheer immensity of the human self as envisioned by the world's religions is awesome.
One of the reasons religions are widely accepted is spiritual laziness and its resulting fear.
The religion of halakhic practice is the religion of life itself.