I believe in God; I just don't trust anyone who works for him.

Religion... is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Mark Twain

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.

Anne Lamott

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

William James

I judge a religion as being good or bad based on whether its adherents become better people as a result of practicing it.

Joe Mullally

I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.

Doug McLeod

In church, sacred music would make believers of us all - but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

Mignon McLaughlin

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

John Morley

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

Havelock Ellis

I considered atheism, but there weren't enough holidays.

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

George Bernard Shaw

Christianity is not being destroyed by the confusions and concussions of the time; it is being discovered.

Hugh E. Brown

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

G. K. Chesterton

The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell.

Sean Ningen