Quotes About Belief

A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.

To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions.

My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We're not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it's called Darwinism .

Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.

The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single...

I got my own way of praying.

Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more.

Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.

Religion cruelly exploits our need to feel connected.

...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.