Quotes About Belief

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

There has been a concerted effort to frame caring about climate change and the environment as an alternate religion - one that worships the creation rather than the creator, so to speak.

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.

God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution.

Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?

Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.

I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.

I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.

At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)

A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'

Know your religion, know who you are and don't be ashamed.

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.