Quotes About Belief

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate.

Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn't admit it.

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.

Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.

If you have some problem in your life and you need to deal with it then use religion it's fine. I use Google.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.

Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

God is something that needs rescuing from religion.