Brennan Manning

“The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and get on with their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.”


C.S. Lewis

In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere – ‘Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,’ as Herbert says, ‘fine nets and stratagems.’ God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.


Stephen King

“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance…logic can be happily tossed out the window.”


Robert A. Heinlein

“Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.”


Chapman Cohen

“Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.”


Ambrose Bierce

“Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.”


Ambrose Bierce

“Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”


Ingmar Bergman

“I hope I never get so old I get religious.”


Douglas Adams

“He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.”