Believers often forget that most atheists used to be religious, that many non-believers used to think they had a personal relationship with their God, and they used to 'feel' the power of prayer. They've since learned that it was all a farce, that their feelings were internal emotions and not some external force.

— David G. McAfee

But what if I don't believe in God? It's like they've sat me in front of a mannequin and said, Fall in love with him. You can't will feeling. What Jack says issues from some still, true place that could not be extinguished by all the schizophrenia his genetic code could muster. It sounds something like this. Get on your knees and find some quiet space inside yourself, a little sunshine right about here. Jack holds his hands in a ball shape about midchest, saying, Let go. Surrender, Dorothy, the witch wrote in the sky. Surrender, Mary. I want to surrender but have no idea what that means. He goes on with a level gaze and a steady tone: Yield up what scares you. Yield up what makes you want to scream and cry. Enter into that quiet. It's a cathedral. It's an empty football stadium with all the lights on. And pray to be an instrument of peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is conflict, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair hope... What if I get no answer there? If God hasn't spoken, do nothing. Fulfill the contract you entered into at the box factory, amen. Make the containers you promised to tape and staple. Go quietly and shine. Wait. Those not impelled to act must remain in the cathedral. Don't be lonely. I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger ...

— Mary Karr

Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of this life?

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Christ the man died long ago, but Christ the idea of love, still exists, not in any church, rather in the mind of humans.

— Abhijit Naskar

Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have, for there is much to prevent one's knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the shortness of man's life.

— Protagoras

Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives, and you have nothing to give them in its place. It's ok if people delude themselves those delusions keep their day running.

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Don’t curse the gods you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variations of the god figure as there are people in the world

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . “Is a pious lie

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements, and we get organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless.

— Sean S. Kamali