Book Quote by Al-Maʿarri

“The sacred Scriptures grow with the one who reads them.”

— Pope Gregory I

“Indeed, adherents of scriptural authority show distressingly little curiosity about the (normally highly dubious) historical origins of their holy books.”

— Richard Dawkins

They amuse themselves by playing an irrelevant ecclesiastical game called "Let's Pretend." Let's pretend that we possess the objective truth of God in our…

— John Shelby Spong

Of them are some who listen unto thee, but we have placed upon their hearts veils, lest they should understand, and in their ears…

— Quran

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion…

— George Bernard Shaw

“It's good to have these stories in our holy books, to remind us that they were written by humans. Filthy-minded, morally ambiguous humans.”

— Suzanne Morrison

The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it:…

— Thomas Jefferson

If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books,…

— Saint Augustine

“Similarly in many countries around the world, including the USA and the UK, witnesses in courts put their hand on a bible when swearing…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In the broader spiritual realities, no rites or rituals are necessary to know God. NONE. Any religion that insists you can come to intimate…

— Carlton D. Pearson

If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood.

— Thomas Paine