There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt. Mignon McLaughlin

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. John Updiken

A religion without the element of mystery would not be a religion at all. Edwin Lewis

It is doubtless true that religion has been the world's psychiatrist throughout the centuries. Karl Menninger

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. Arthur Schopenhauer

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays. Cathy Ladman

No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard. William Ernest Hocking

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

God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him? Martin Buber

All religions must be tolerated... for... every man must get to heaven his own way. Frederick the Great

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

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady that neither of them care for. George Savilen

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. Mignon McLaughlinn

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances. Theodore Dreisern

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching. Ralph Waldo Emerson

All men have need of the gods. Homer

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. George Bernard Shaw

Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love. Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure. Harvard Lamphoonn