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.
Wherever I go, I say: ‘What’s the alternative religion?’ because every country has it.
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.
Orthodox religion is a kind of boa-constrictor; anything it can not dodge it will swallow.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!
Religion is a traffic and a shop: you earn a hundred for one when you know how to handle its talent.
So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake … Religion is all bunk.