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Quotes About Belief

Christians and non-Christians have something in common. Were both uptight about evangelism.
~ Rebecca Pippert
My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.
~ R. D. Laing
As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.
~ Pierre Corneille
I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
~ Jack London
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.
~ Thomas Szasz
religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.
~ Seth MacFarlane
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
~ Benjamin Rush
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.
~ Kate Greenaway
Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.
~ James Henry Breasted
For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.
~ George Steiner
There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.
~ George Meyer
One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.
~ Bertrand Russell
That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset someone.
~ Lewis Black
No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
~ Christopher Hitchens
There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.
~ Ayn Rand
I respect humanity. That's my religion. I can't stand these religions that are really businesses. So much money everywhere that's going to buy a really nice house in heaven - or what? I don't get it.
~ Marjane Satrapi
In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.
~ Wendy Kaminer
Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.
~ Richard P. Feynman
I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.
~ Sean Hannity
Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.
~ Frank J. Tipler
In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.
~ Alexander Schmemann