Quotes About Belief

Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Religion, richest favor of the skies.

To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.

If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.

The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.

Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.

All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.

Worry and faith just don't mix.

Organized religions by their very natures are misleading.

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

Why do I feel you hear these prayers of mine, when so many ought to be ahead of me in line?

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

If a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.