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| The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord | | Bible | |
| The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer. (Psalms 6:9) | | Bible | |
| The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit | | Bible | |
| The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. | | Bible | |
| The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - He first individualizes | | Henrik Ibsen | |
| The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion. | | Herman Hesse | |
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| The New Testament, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act | | Thomas Paine | |
| The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation | | Thomas Paine | |
| The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice | | Thomas Paine | |
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| The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief-call it what you will-than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course. | | A. A. Milne | |
| The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not | | Eric Hoffer | |
| The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; and the last end of every human being, is to discover the fact for himself, to find out who he really is. | | Aldous Huxley | |
| The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart | | Walter Lippmann | |
| The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love. | | Victor Hugo | |
| The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion | | Edmund Burke | |
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| The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.... | | Albert Einstein | |
| The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people. | | Aldous Huxley | |
