“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.” 
― Richard Dawkins

“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.” 
― Richard Dawkins

“Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!” 
― Joel Osteen

“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.” 
― David Hume

“If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?” 
― Yann Martel

“Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.” 
― Jasper Fforde

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is – I repeat it – a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them.” 
― Charlotte Brontë

“Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!” 
― C.S. Lewis