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| Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand | | Karl Marx | |
| Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. | | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
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| Religion is the opium of the masses. | | Karl Marx | |
| Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. | | Karl Marx | |
| Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. | | Frank Herbert | |
| Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. | | Ambrose Bierce | |
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| Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable | | Gore Vidal | |
| Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. | | Bertrand Russell | |
| Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge | | William James | |
| Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature | | Sigmund Freud | |
Science which has become a great power in the last
century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to
us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the
learned of this world have nothing left of all that
was sacred. But they have only analyzed the parts and
overlooked the whole, and indeed their blindness is
marvelous. | | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me (John 5:39). | | Bible | |
| Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own | | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God | | Bible | |
| Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name | | Bible | |
| That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not | | Thomas Paine | |
