Quotes About Belief

If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

I have no religion. But culturally I can't escape it; I'm very Jewish.

Christianity is in its very essence a resurrection religion. The concept of resurrection lies at its heart. If you remove it, Christianity is destroyed.

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.

Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.

In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.

Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.

The idol is the expression of religion.