My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

—Albert Einstein

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the not-worth-knowing.

 —H.L. Mencken

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

—Sir Richard Francis Burton

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

—Steven Weinberg

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society, the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

 —Thomas Jefferson

A man is accepted into church for what he believes — and turned out for what he knows.

—Mark Twain

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same god who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

—Galileo Galilei

To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin.

—Cardinal Bellarmine (during the trial of Galileo)

The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts.

—Bertrand Russell

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

—Dave Barry

Whoever says he knows the way, does not know the way.

—Lao Tze

Don’t talk to me of miracles that happened 2,000 years ago. Don’t tell me of the greatness of your god. Show your god to others as he lives through you.

—Mohandas Gandhi

It is a test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

—G.K. Chesterton

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature, and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

—Anne Frank

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.

—The Dalai Lama