Quotes About Belief

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.

Seventy-two virgins - does that make sense to anyone? And it's an ancient religion, maybe it was misinterpreted? Maybe it's not 72 virgins, maybe it's a 7-foot-2 Persian.

Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.

I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.

Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. So real religion is always without rules; only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.

God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you believe in god, you're wrong.

Only religion can lead to such evil.

... religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches.

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.

When it comes to responding to Jesus, I find it's important to distinguish between reverence, religion, and relationship.

I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort.

If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

I believe in God... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for even in the church, money is still the 'real' God.