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Quotes About Belief

When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.
~ C. S. Lewis
He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.
~ Thomas Jefferson
With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'
~ Matt Stone
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
~ Eric Hoffer
One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.
~ Georgia Harkness
Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience.
~ Deepak Chopra
Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.
~ Jodi Picoult
Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.
~ David Hume
Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
~ Salman Rushdie
This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.
~ John Adams
People are my religion/Because I believe in them.
~ Andrew Jackson
Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion ?
~ Frank Zappa
Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends His son to die for you.
~ Cal Thomas
If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion has what is EASILY the greatest bullshit story of all time.
~ George Carlin
I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.
~ Robert Pattinson
The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
~ E. O. Wilson
How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.
~ Dorothy Day
One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.
~ James M. Barrie
There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.
~ Mark Thomas
While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another religion.
~ Ibn Warraq
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
~ Mark Twain
RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.
~ Bertrand Russell