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Quotes About Belief

Sure, Christianity is a world religion and I don't deny that. But having said that, this is, when it is all said and done, a relationship with God.
~ Greg Laurie
No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of the heart!
~ Yogaswami
I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.
~ Bertrand Russell
Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.
~ Ronald Knox
When one is under pressure, one may lie in order to protect the religion, this is taught in the Qur'an.
~ Robert Spencer
Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it.
~ Julien Offray de La Mettrie
It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.
~ Dorothy Day
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.
~ Tertullian
I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.
~ Bertrand Russell
If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.
~ Bertrand Russell
The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.
~ Bob Inglis
The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.
~ Thomas Paine
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
~ P.J. O'Rourke
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
The substance of all realities is in this religion of Jesus Christ; but it can be real only to those who will do His will.
~ Washington Gladden
My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.
~ Albert Einstein
From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.
~ Mary McCarthy
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?
~ Thomas Watson
The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
~ Robert A. Heinlein