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Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

- Frederick the Great

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

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

- Blaise Pascal

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k’s because three would be too obvious.

- Bill Maher

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.

- Charles Caleb Colton

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

- Margaret Smith

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

Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.

- Marianne Williamson

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said Let us pray. We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

- Desmond Tutu

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

- George Bernard Shaw