Quotes About Belief

But what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?" "That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.

Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

Who knows most, doubts most.

The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind

You got your God and so do I.

I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

My religion lies in my composition.

There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.

No human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion

If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.

Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.

I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.

Do you know what Christianity is? We believe your religion [Judaism], but you [Jews] have to obey.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

We are religious by nature.