I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
– Oscar Wilde
Religious Quotes
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Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he makes gods by the dozen.
– Montaigne (1553-1592)
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The Bible, it seems certain, was a work of sand-strewn men and women who thought the earth was flat and for whom a wheelbarrow would have been a breathtaking example of emerging technology.
– Sam Harris
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Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he’ll starve to death while praying for a fish.
– Unknown
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Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
– Benjamin Franklin
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If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
– Art Hoppe
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The good Lord never gives you more than you can handle. Unless you die of something.
– Guindon cartoon caption
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Why should we take advise on sex from the Pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t.
-George Bernard Shaw
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The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn’t
have that rule when Jesus was born.
-Elayne Boosler
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If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said “No”.
-Margaret “Stevie” Smith (1902-1971)
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I take my pet lion to church every Sunday. He has to eat.
-Marty Pollio
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t going to be an answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
– Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
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Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions.
-Frater Ravus
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Churches welcome all denominations, but most prefer fives and tens.
-Unknown
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Woman was God’s second mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844– 1900)
