Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix. Beware those who claim to know the mind of God and who are prepared to use force, if necessary, to make others conform. Beware those who cannot tell God’s will from their own.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
I am always surprised when people tell me that they are not at all religious. It seems to me that to live without religion is to condemn oneself to a world which is the psychological equivalent of decaf coffee, non-alcoholic wines, fatless butter substitutes, paper made out of reconstituted garbage, language dominated by political correctness, and all that rubbish which is supposed to make life safe and inoffensive and hardly distinguishable from death. Only of course we never talk about death. We hope to read in the paper some morning that science has found a cure for it.
— Robertson Davies, The Merry Heart, p. 279