Accounting Quote by Iain Banks

It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate ages of…

— Joseph Addison

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

— Frederick Buechner

“There is a fundamental difference between the financial enterprise and political machinations of an organized religion versus a mass of independent unaffiliated believers, philosophers,…

— Gregory F. Fegel

It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted…

— H. L. Mencken

In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion -- or a new form of Christianity -- based on faith in…

— Anonymous

“The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternative language, and with the language…

— Peter Sloterdijk

When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which…

— Vita Sackville-West

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship…

— William Butler Yeats

To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith.

— James Cook

“What I was referring to was not religion as such, but a special category of abstractions, the most exalted one, which, for centuries, had…

— Ayn Rand

Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish…

— Lydia M. Child

“Money was the blood of civilized society, its currents running through everything and everyone. Where money was insufficient, things withered. People starved, sickened and…

— wildbow