"Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion." Ralph Sockman

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion." Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer (1917-2008)

"Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us." John Irving, novelist (b. 1942)

"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours." Wayne Dyer

"Religion is for people afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there." Unknown

"It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity." Abraham Lincoln

"The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many." Joseph Wood Krutch

"What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears." Alice Walker, author (b. 1944)

“Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.” Mahatma Gandhi

“Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal that has the true religion -- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight.” Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)