Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. Victor Hugo
A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order. Thomas Jefferson
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. Joseph Joubert
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were. Jean La Bruyere
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence. Jean La Bruyere
Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge? Michel De Montaigne
The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean. Saskya Pandita
The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars. Albert Pike
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt. Plutarch
God is a reality of spirit...He cannot...be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects. Nicholas Berdyaev
You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God. Ramakrishna
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. Bertrand Russell
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. George Santayana
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Seneca
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God. Seneca
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. Sivananda
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. Voltaire
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker. Voltaire
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. Voltaire