There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it
- George Bernard Shaw
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All religions are founded on the fear of
the many and the cleverness of the few
- Stendhal
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A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death
- Albert Einstein
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Atheism is a non-prophet
organization
- Unknown
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I go walking, and the hills loom above me, range upon range, one against the other. I cannot tell where one begins and another leaves off. But when I talk with God, He lifts me up where I can see clearly where everything has a distinct contour
- Madam Chaiang Kai-shek
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We are as gods. We might as
well get good at it
- Stewart Brand
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Every man shall give as he is able , according to the blessing of the Lord, thy God which he hath given thee
- Deuteronomy 16:17
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Better to rule in Hell than
to serve in Heaven
- Milton
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God is a comedian playing to an
audience too afraid to laugh
- Voltaire
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God will pardon me.
It is his trade
- Heinrich Heine
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I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church
- Thomas Paine
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use
- Galileo
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If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever
- Woody Allen
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In heaven all the interesting
people are missing
- Nietzsche
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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us
- Peter De Vries
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Just what God needs -
one more victim
- Tori Amos
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Religion is a defense against
the experience of God
- Carl Jung
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Televangelists:
The Pro Wrestlers of religion
- Unknown
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The clergy believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny known to the mind of man
- Thomas Jefferson
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The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge
- Albert Einstein
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The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around
- Herb Caen
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When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself so that its professors are obliged to call for the help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one
- Ben Franklin
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Which is it, is man one of God's
blunders or is God one of man's?
- Nietzsche
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Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage
makes you a car
- Laurence J. Peter
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We should be less concerned about making churches full of people and more concerned about making people full of God
- C. Kirk Hadaway and David A. Roozen
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Call on God, but row
away from the rocks
- Unknown
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God isn't dead, he just
couldn't find a parking place
- Unknown
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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
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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself
- Richard Burton
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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link
- Simone Weil
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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake
medicine for magic
- Thomas Szasz
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A myth is a religion in which
no one any longer believes
- James Feibleman
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I won't take my religion from any man
who never works except with his mouth
- Carl Sandburg
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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion
- Thomas Paine
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion
- Matthew Arnold
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind
- Albert Einstein
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Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there
- Mohammed Neguib
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Science without religion is lame,
religion without science is blind
- Albert Einstein
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Religion has done love a great
service by making it a sin
- Anatole France
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Religion is the opium
of the masses
- Karl Marx
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Science is a differential equation.
Religion is a boundary condition
- Alan Turing
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Religions change, but beer
and wine remain
- Unknown
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We have just enough religion to make
us hate, but not enough to make us
love on another
- Jonathan Swift
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion
- Francis Bacon
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There is no religion higher
than the truth
- Blavatsky
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Religion is what keeps the poor
man from murdering the rich
- Napolean Bonaparte
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Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance
- Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser
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I tried believing in god once,
but i hated living in ignorance
- Matthew Eastwood
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God is not dead, he just smells funny
- Frank Zappa
(from Jon Charboneau
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I have only one thing to ask of God:
Why?
- Rhonald Akridge

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