If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it. (Quote by - Nadine Gordimer)

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window. (Quote by - Stephen King)

Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man. (Quote by - Francis Cardinal Spellman)

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. (Quote by - Anne Lamott)

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. (Quote by - Montaigne)

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. (Quote by - Lynn Lavner)

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place. (Quote by - Angela Carter)

Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know. (Quote by - Donald Curtis)

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them. (Quote by - Richard H. Tawney)

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made. (Quote by - Bible)

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. (Quote by - S ren Kierkegaard)

The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine? (Quote by - Judith Hayes)

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal. (Quote by - Emily Bronte)

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height. (Quote by - George Champman)

Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. (Quote by - Robert M. Pirsig)

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is. (Quote by - Albert Camus)

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing. (Quote by - George Dana Boardman)

O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small. (Quote by - Anonymous)

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. (Quote by - Arthur C. Clarke)

Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. (Quote by - Bible)

Christ's grave was the birthplace of an indestructible belief that death is vanquished and there is life eternal. (Quote by - Adolph Harnack)

John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me. (Quote by - Rupert Hughes)

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. (Quote by - Madame De St l)