“Religion seems to have twisted the idea of God into a way to control people.”— Diane Chamberlain, amazon.com
“I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.”— Hannibal Lector, Thomas Harris, amazon.com
“Jesus offered great hope. It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The meek shall inherit the earth and ascend to the right hand of God. This, from the Sermon on the Mount, is the most radical social and political doctrine ever…”— Tom Wolfe, amazon.com
“Jesus is the Rock of Ages for both Marxism and its less vulgar child, Political Correctness in American colleges and universities, today, even though Jesus’s latter-day ducklings would gag on the very thought.”— Tom Wolfe, amazon.com
“I rebel against the translation of reality into a morality: therefore I abhor Christianity with a deadly hatred.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“The more I understood what God intended for sex, the better sex was.”— Sheila Wray Gregoire, amazon.com
“God will add some "wow" to the intimate times you have with your man because he set this whole sex thing in motion.”— Sheila Wray Gregoire, amazon.com
“Your purity is not based on what you've done with your body. It's based on what Jesus did with His.”— Sheila Wray Gregoire, amazon.com
“God made sex to be so wonderful that for a few moments, it's as if the only people who exist in the world are you and your husband. Everything is supersensitive. Your senses are heightened. You lose control.”— Sheila Wray Gregoire, amazon.com
“You were created for sex. God made you just the way you are - with your anatomy, personality, sexuality, and desires - so that one day you could be united with that special someone.”— Sheila Wray Gregoire, amazon.com
“That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter B…”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“The moral of the story is: don’t trust people who want to sell you answers. Don’t trust people who tell you they have found Answers. Run away from people who tell you about their transformation. Call their bluff when they tell you they are living in their happily ever after. These things aren’t real…”— Chrissy Stockton, chrissystockton.com
“Literature grants us few of the consolations and none of the vatic promises of religion, but is our religion nonetheless.”— Joyce Carol Oates, narrativemagazine.com
“There are so many other conversations we could be having. Why not talk about how hard it is to get a job when you have an Arabic name? Why not talk about how public schools refuse to serve lunches that are Halal? Or how difficult they make it to learn Arabic? Or how France refuses the construction o…”— Nadja Spiegelman, nymag.com
“I choose to believe in God because it makes things better. You have a meditation point, a source of strength. I don't ask myself, "Well, does God exist or does God not exist?" I choose to believe that God exists, and therefore I can say, "God, I can't do this by myself. Help me not to take a drink t…”— Stephen King, rollingstone.com
“But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain.”— Alice Walker, amazon.com
“Have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.”— Alice Walker, amazon.com
“Mommy is one of the chosen people … and daddy believes that Jesus is magic!”— Sarah Silverman, youtube.com
“The spiritual journey involves going beyond hope and fear, stepping into unknown territory, continually moving forward. The most important aspect of being on the spiritual path may be to just keep moving.”— Pema Chodron, amazon.com
“There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com