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.
Every religious institution will strive to deform the image of religion.
Religion purges, illuminates and perfects all internal and external man.
The vocation to religion is the greatest gratia that God can give to his elect after baptism.
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece.
Religion! what treasure untold
Resides in that heavenly word!
Philosophy, is the talk on a cereal box.
Religion, is a smile on a dog.
Religions remain what they are. Zen is meditation. Meditation is the foundation of every religion.