No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.

If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed in polygamy; that he persecuted for opinion's sake; that he will punish forever, and that he hates an unbeliever, the effect in my judgment will be bad. It always has been bad. This belief built the dungeons of the Inquisition. This belief made the Puritan murder the Quaker.

Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.

Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense.

We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.