"Silence is God's first language; everything else is a poor translation." 

 Thomas Keating

“The world is my country, all mankind are my bethren, and to do good is my religion.”
_  Thomas Paine

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect, has intended us to forego their use."

Galileo

"The Devil can site scripture for his own purposes."
~William Shakespeare

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree..."
~ Albert Einstein