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)

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
(George Santayana)

The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
(George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan)

The church is the great lost and found department.
(Robert Short)

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
(Sydney Smith)

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
(Billy Sunday)