The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
Quotations
Scripture
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
-John Flavel
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
-Galileo Galilei
The religious scriptures are thousands of years old. Don't know since when
they have been engaged in the upliftment of mankind. But still, considering the
enormity of the pains and problems of human beings, they have been proved
miserable failures. Now, it is high time...that new ways of thinking be adopted.
-Deep Trivedi
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The Jain monks, who claim their scriptures to be more knowledgeable and
advanced than science, by walking barefoot and uprooting hair with their own
hands, which scientific age prescribed in their scriptures do they want to drive
mankind to?
-Deep Trivedi
Have you ever seen classes where tigers are taught to hunt, monkeys to jump
or cows being trained to abstain from eating flesh? Then what are we being
preached and why? Do our religious heads and scriptures consider us even
worse than animals?
-Deep Trivedi
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The bible tells us to love our neighbours and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
-G. K. Chesterton
