A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. - Carl Sandburg

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. - Margaret Atwood

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire (1694-1778)

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. - Billy Sunday

Hell is paved with good samaritans. - William M. Holden

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

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. - Jules Renard

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

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. - Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. - Doug MacLeod

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. - Shirley Temple Black

If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. - Voltaire (1694-1778)

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. - Voltaire (1694-1778)

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

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. - Peter de Vries

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. - Woody Allen (Born 1935)

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. - Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope. - Carrie P. Snow

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. - Lynn Lavner

The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. - Voltaire (1694-1778)

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. - Woody Allen (Born 1935)