God's favor floats as it were over all this and finds joy in turning all those miseries to the greater profit of those who love Him. From toil He makes patience spring forth.
— Francis de Sales
All churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
— Thomas Paine
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
— George Lucas
If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety, but profit.