Religion/Faith

I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.

-- Doug MacLeod

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

-- H. L. Mencken

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

-- H. L. Mencken

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

-- Wilson Mizner

Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

-- P. J. O'Rourke

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

-- Robert M. Pirsig

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

-- Jules Renard

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred.
I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

-- Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

-- Carl Sandburg

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.

-- George Santayana

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

-- George Santayana

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