If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Kahlil Gibran

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Douglas Adams

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
H. L. Mencken

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Helen Keller

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.
Bill Maher

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill Gates

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Albert Einstein

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
Robert A. Heinlein

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
Thomas Jefferson

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
Paul Tournier

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
Frederick II

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The Bible is literature, not dogma.
George Santayana

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
Bill Maher

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche