Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. Joan B. Campbell, Sojourners, August-September, 1991. The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, 1927.
Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.
Harvey Cox, The Seduction of the Spirit, 1973. This is my simple religion. I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, Dayton, Tennessee, July 13, 1925. Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.