All religions have been made by men.
Napolean Bonaparte (1769-1821)

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
William James (1843-1910)

No matter what ugly things you may hear about the world, you must believe them. A Juvenal could not depict the horrors masked by its gold and glittering jewels.
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop (ca. 620-ca. 560 B.C.)

It is a mistake to assume that God is interested only, or even chiefly, in religion.
William Temple (1881-1944)

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
William Ashley "Billy" Sunday (1862-1935)

How many evils has religion caused!
Lucretius (97?-54 B.C.)

Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God above is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor.
Whittaker Chambers (1910-1961)

In an unpermissible and unlawful way people have become knowing about Christ, for the only permissible way is to be believing.
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.
Martin Luther (1483-1546)

The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.
Napolean Bonaparte (1769-1821)