Certainity

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

ONLY death that no one doubts  

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.  ~John Updike, Self-Consciousness, 1989


A religion without the element of mystery would not be a religion at all.  ~Edwin Lewis

All religions are the same:  religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.  ~Cathy Ladman

All religions must be tolerated... for... every man must get to heaven his own way.  ~Frederick the Great

All religions must be tolerated... for... every man must get to heaven his own way.  ~Frederick the Great


This is my simple religion.  There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy.  Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.  ~Dalai Lama

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


All men have need of the gods.  ~Homer


There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.  ~George Bernard Shaw


Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Follow Descartes!  Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one.  ~Martin H. Fischer


Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.  ~Seneca the Younger

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

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

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered.  Religion is answers that may never be questioned.  ~Author Unknown

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 G. Ingersoll

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

 

“All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.” ~Stendhal