I realized that ritual will always mean throwing away something; Destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship with persons who share the same mystery. (Quote by - Paulo Coelho)

Many families think of church as if it was a convention - they send one delegate. (Quote by - Wayne Day)

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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. (Quote by - David Hume)

If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)

We have grasped the mystery of the atom, and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. (Quote by - Omar Bradley)

Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve. (Quote by - Scott Cunningham)

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth, Health and Power. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?" (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)

There is no hope of anyone going to heaven unless they believe this truth. You cannot go to heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place. (Quote by - Joyce Meyer)

The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion. (Quote by - Voltaire)

I might believe in the Redeemer if His followers looked more Redeemed. (Quote by - Fredrick Nietzsche)

The church exists for the sake of those outside it. (Quote by - William Temple)

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. (Quote by - James Madison)

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. (Quote by - Dave Barry)

The Church of England is the Tory party at prayer. (Quote by - Anonymous)

The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion! (Quote by - Daniel Dennett)

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

My theology, briefly, Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)