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Quotes About Belief

God is honored by large, difficult, and impossible requests when we ask, seek, knock, and trust our loving Father always to answer for our good.
~ Charles Stanley
Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve grasped the truth.
~ James Heckman
Revealed religion has no weight with me.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no power.
~ Samuel Chadwick
Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
~ James D. Watson
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
~ Graham Greene
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.
~ John Scalzi
In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.
~ Tom C. Clark
Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.
~ John Selden
A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul.
~ Richard Sibbes
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
~ George Santayana
What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.
~ Jonathan Swift
Your mind is your religion.
~ Thubten Yeshe
All I ever have to be is what you made me.
~ Amy Grant
Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.
~ Ben Casnocha
The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.
~ Bertrand Russell
The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.
~ Bertrand Russell
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
~ Aristophanes
I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
~ Patrick Wilson
Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.
~ Miroslav Volf