Atheism Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

— Albert Einstein

Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.

— John Dryden

Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors…

— Dalai Lama

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

— Carl Sagan

A revival of religion presupposes a declension.

— Charles Grandison Finney

“Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making…

— Stephen K. Hayes

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

— Baron d'Holbach

If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such spiritual exaltation,…

— Thomas Berry

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

— Frederick Buechner

In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits,…

— Paul Harris

Religion implies revelation.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock