“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” – Albert Einstein

“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

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylums shows that faith does not prove anything.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“People expect you as a believer to have all the answers when really all you get is another set of questions.” – Bono, U2

“God has no religion’. – Mahatma Ghandi

“It is a great mistake to think that God is chiefly interested in religion.” – William Temple

“Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is forbidden to talk back.” – Harvey Cox

“From silly devotions and sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.” – St Teresa of Avila

“Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem – for purely religious purposes, of course – to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.” Rudyard Kipling

“After coming into contact with a religious man I alays feel that I must wash m,y hands.” – Friedrich Nietzsche.

“Why do people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?” – Anne Dillard “Religion is a defense against the experience of God.” – Carl Jung

“Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.” – Lenny Bruce

“Why should one be a Christian? In order to be fully human.” – Hans Kung

“We’re all bastards but God loves us anyway.” – Will Campbell

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Christ beats his drum but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.” – John Donne