My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. – David Herbert Lawrence

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous. – Diodorus Siculus, c.20BC

On passing a revivalist tabernacle — The call of Christ requires no neon sign. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. – Alfred North Whitehead