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.
Custom has been confused with religion. As a result, the former has been gaining an upper hand.
7 per cent haz no rest, nor no religion, it works nights, and Sundays, and even wet days.
Is it conceivable to adhere to a religion founded by someone else?
If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
Only Art and Religion can bring this new vision as reality to a nation.
“No,” said Travec, “religions, cults, rituals—forms of insanity—don’t interest me.”
When religion abandons poetic utterance, it cuts its own throat.
Even if religion and morality are dismissed as illusion, the word "Ought" still has sway.
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.