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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.

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"Religion is much used by the usurper to keep God’s chosen people under his oppression."

Witness Lee

The Christianity in discussion is a religion which demands not only the knowledge of its theories, but also their application in life.

Nectarios of Aegina

How far can the new wine of modern knowledge and changed ways of thought be poured into the old bottles of traditional religion?

John Neville Figgis Civilisation at the Cross Roads (1912)

Writing about Nigeria is writing about religion, for it is a country where almost everyone is religious or conditioned to be religious.

Stephen Buoro The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa (2023)

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Hervey Allen Anthony Adverse (1933)

Religion, in itself, does not require an institution, for it is a very personal relation between man and God.

Ashraf Mansour

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

Jane Porter Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks (1807)

Mayonnaise, n. One of the sauces that serve the French in place of a state religion.

Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Organised religion has corrupted one of the purest, most powerful and sustaining things in the human condition.

Alan Moore De Abaitua interview (1998)

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.

Winston Churchill The Second World War (1939)

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Cicero De Divinatione – On Divination (-44)

My life is dedicated to service of India through the religion of nonviolence which I believed to be the root of Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi The Doctrine Of The Sword (1920)

At last it occurred to the intelligent to examine our own religion, and this examination has excited great interest and great comment.

Robert G. Ingersoll

I suggest rather than fraudulently misrepresenting me to be a Jew
..
you try to promote your religion on its own merits--if indeed it has any!

Bobby Fischer

This is all the inheritance I can give to my dear family. The religion of Christ can give them one which will make them rich indeed.

Patrick Henry Last Will and Testament (1798)

I'm an atheist, but I see the great world religions as enormous works of art. As the best way to understand the universe and man's place in it.

Camille Paglia

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Alexander Hamilton The Federalist Papers (1787)

My mum was Jewish. Maybe I'm a really bad Jew because I'm always so excited to say that I am, but I don't live and breathe the religion.

Stella McCartney

That Religion may flourish upon its true Plan
Of Glory to God and Salvation to Man.

John Byrom

All religious thought and speech are through and through symbolic. And this fundamental insight is perhaps as old as religion itself.

Walter Terence Stace

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