Christianity is good news, not good advice.
—Dean Inge
But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.
—Michael Jackson
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
—Mark Twain
Christ didn't say, "Love humanity as thyself," but, "Love thy neighbor as thyself," and do you know why? Because your neighbor, by definition, is the person nearby, the man sitting next to you in the underground who smells, perhaps, the man next to you in the queue who maybe tries to barge ahead of you; in short, your neighbor is the person who threatens your own liberty.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
I'm not intolerant. I just know what it says in the Scriptures.
—Jesse Helms
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
—Quentin Crisp
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately.
—Scott Adams
Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve.
—Alasdair MacIntyre