Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
Louis Kronenberger

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama

We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Elbert Hubbard

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
Frank Sinatra

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Desmond Tutu

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
John Morley

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Swami Vivekananda