Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

C. S. Lewis

"Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time."

Dennis Miller

"Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife."

Kahlil Gibran

"Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."

Isaac Asimov

"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? Priest: No, not if you did not know. Eskimo: Then why did you tell me?"

Annie Dillard

"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."

Paul Valery

"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."

Douglas Adams

"Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known."

Blaise Pascal

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

C. S. Lewis

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."

Stephen Roberts

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

Galileo Galilei

"I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her."

Arthur C. Clarke

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

Mohandas Gandhi

"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."

Kahlil Gibran

"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."

Henry Ward Beecher

"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."

Frederick Douglass

"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."

Albert Camus

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

Robert Green Ingersoll

"If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said No."

Margaret Smith

"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."

Napoleon Bonaparte

"If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses."

Lenny Bruce

"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul."

Kahlil Gibran

"If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction."

Judith Hayes