“There is no religion without love,  and people may talk as much as  they like about their religion, but  if it does not teach them to be good  and kind to man and beast,  it is all a sham.” 
― Anna Sewell

“Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that they are important. … it's vanity.” 
― Robert Jackson Bennett

“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.” 
― Thomas Paine

“Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an "Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition" right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?” 
― Arianna Huffington

“Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.” 
― D.L. Moody

“With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing.” 
― C.G. Jung

“A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday.” 
― Navonne Johns

“God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.” 
― Merritt Y. Hughes