Famous Quotes
Foreward	This is a handy compilation of quotes divided into categories, ranging from use in evangelism situations to instances where "Christians" persecute you legalistically. These quotes may allow you to cast light upon a situation and even diffuse hostility in some cases. I find that Albert Einstein's wit and wisdom, for example, is generally a little more seasoned than the average atheist's "logic" used against Christians when dicussing matters relating to God, science and religion. These may help you counter many arguements in evangelism, or to directly confront fellow "Christians" who may have a slightly abusive approach to religion. The quotes are divided into categories, so just advance to whichever section you feel most applies. The following quotes of Albert Einstein are excerpted from a collection copyrighted 1995 by Kevin Harris (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement). The unedited original list is here.
On Evangelism	"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details." - Albert Einstein "I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice." - Albert Einstein "God is subtle but he is not malicious." - Albert Einstein "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." - Albert Einstein "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." - Albert Einstein "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically." - Albert Einstein "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." - Albert Einstein "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." - Albert Einstein "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?" - Albert Einstein "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." - Albert Einstein "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." - Albert Einstein "One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year." - Albert Einstein
When People Persecute You	"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." - Albert Einstein "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." - Albert Einstein "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity." - Albert Einstein "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." - Albert Einstein "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." - Albert Einstein "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge." - Albert Einstein (Editor's note: the knowledge of God - a mentioned in the Bible - refers to an intimate relationship where one knows God as a child knows his/her Father. This is where relationship triumphs over religion!)