Quotes About Belief

Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

Christianity is such a silly religion.

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.

Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.

No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.

A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.

No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.

Religion is civilization, the highest.

If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

What excellent fools religion makes of men.

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.

I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.

The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.