Quotes About Belief

The religion is a formality. What matters is you show respect to God and your faith in God.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

I don't believe in atheists.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity

My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.

Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

The home of Religion is the heart.

This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.

No religion but blasphemes a little.

If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace with any other religion.

When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion

I don't approve of religion.

Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].

Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly in the host until something evokes it.

Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.