Quotes About Belief

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

Since my life as a prisoner has begun I have heard the teachings of the white man's religion, and in many respects believe it to be better than the religion of my fathers

Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

Some people say that we here have no freedom of religion, ... In reality, the people in that country are the ones who were forced to embrace a religion.

In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

We got to pray just to make it today.

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.

Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!

Religion isn't about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It's about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both ... different. In spelling.

unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system.

Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

It is error to believe that Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.

A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.