If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
(Thomas Szasz)

Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
(William Temple)

Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
(Mark Twain)

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
(Mark Twain)

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
(Mark Twain)

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
(Voltaire)

If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
(Voltaire

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
(Voltaire)

The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
(Voltaire)

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
(Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle)

My husband used to make all the decisions in our family. But now that he's a Promise Keeper, we always talk first and then he makes the decision.
(Wife of a Promise Keeper, a U.S. men's religious group focusing on mens' commitments to their families)

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
(Oscar Wilde)

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
(Thornton Wilder

The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
(C. Stacey Woods)

I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
(Virginia Woolf)

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
(John D. Rockefeller, 1874-1960)