Accepting Quote by Brennan Manning

“He is the only God man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods—the gods of human manufacturing—despise sinners, but the Father of…

— Brennan Manning

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

— Virgil

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name…

— Natalie Clifford Barney

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

— Alexander Herzen

“My father once told me that there are no gods; only the cruel manipulations of evil people who pretended that their power was good…

— Orson Scott Card

A true worshipper is one whose mind has not been defiled with any false belief.

— Pope Leo I

The ultimate replacement for any of the false gods that are a part of our lives is a deep and abiding love of God.…

— Daniel K Judd

An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the…

— Epicurus

Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to the God…

— Emma Goldman

“The opinions held by most people about the gods are not true conceptions of them but fallacious notions, according to which awful penalties are…

— Epicurus

To worship God in truth is further to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us…

— Brother Lawrence

He who does not hate the false does not love the true; and he to whom it is all the same whether it be…

— Charles Spurgeon