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"Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God."
Albert Einstein

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

"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

"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

"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

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

"Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."
Bill Gates

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."
Benjamin Franklin

"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."
Bishop Desmond Tutu

"The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs."
Bill Maher

"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

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

"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

"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

"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

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

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
Douglas Adams

"We are punished by our sins, not for them."
Elbert Hubbard

"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."
Edmund Burke

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