Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.Mother Teresa
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.Aristotle
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.Mahatma Gandhi
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.Richard Dawkins
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.Richard Dawkins
God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.Emily Dickinson
God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.Isaac Newton
Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.Chuck Palahniuk
