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| The adulterous connection between church and state | | Thomas Paine | |
| The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it. | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it. | | George Bernard Shaw | |
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| The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously. | | Joseph Joubert | |
| The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief of this is called blasphemy | | Thomas Paine | |
| The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own | | Robert Green Ingersoll | |
| The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one | | David Hume | |
| The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example | | Mark Twain | |
| The derivation of a need for religion from the child’s feeling of helplessness and the longing it evokes for a father seems to me incontrovertible, especially since this feeling is not simply carried on from childhood days but is kept alive perpetually by the fear of what the superior power of fate will bring. | | Sigmund Freud | |
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| The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God | | Bible | |
| The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory | | Robert Green Ingersoll | |
| The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both | | Ursula K. LeGuin | |
| The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| The highest principles for our aspirations and judgements are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations. | | Albert Einstein | |
| The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India. | | H. G. Wells | |
| The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death | | Gore Vidal | |
| The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. | | Kahlil Gibran | |
| The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel (Joel 3:16). | | Bible | |
