“Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as an incomprehensible power, the original and preserver of all things, all goodness, all perfection...”
~ Michel de Montaigne

“Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding...”

“To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.”

~ Montaigne

“Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God.”

“Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.”

~ Montaigne