I'm suspicious about people interested in saving other people's souls.

All the religiosity around worries me—doesn’t it you?

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem—for purely religious purposes, of course—to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

she might even be so zealous about religious observances as to be unable to see her own faults;

It’s bad business meddling with the devil; it makes you superstitious.

Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers.

I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

For religions, spirituality is a dangerous threat.

It was all this, I think, that made me begin to have doubts about religion and even about God. If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God’s chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business.

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

If you want to create wealth (in the narrow technical sense of not starving), then you should be especially skeptical about any plan that centers on things you like doing.

Spirituality becomes suspect if it is merely an anaesthetic to still one's spiritual hunger. Such spirituality is driven by the fear of loneliness. If you bring courage to you solitude, you learn that you do not need to be afraid.