The defenders of godism are now shrieking against the growing number of Atheists, and there is a call to the religious world to enter upon a crusade against Atheism. The stage in which heresy meant little more than all exchange of one god for another has passed. It has become a case of acceptance or rejection of the idea of God, and the growth is with those who reject.

We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.

Religion is very enlightening - to those who don't understand it.

It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.

Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.

But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers run by great towns, and that death comes at the end of life instead of in the middle of it. Divest pleas ... of their semi-philosophic jargon, reduce his illustrations to homely similes, and he is marvelling at the wisdom of God who so planned things that the two extremities of a piece of wood should come at the ends instead of in the middle.

The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches.