Quotes About Belief

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

I'd rather be a born-once hog than a born-again Christian any day.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.

'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.

Without God there would be no freedom to believe what you want.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.

Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.

Basketball is like Religion. Many attend but few understand.

God is love and if you are ready, he always is.

Everyone just did what their parents did. So that immediately made me skeptical of the whole religion thing, even as a kid. So I never was really into religion as a concept.

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.

The Bible itself is intolerant, and true followers of God's word should be as well.

To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not -- and care not -- which.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

People who demand signs never believe them when they come.