Quotes About Belief

If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.

Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.

How many evils have flowed from religion.

The Christian religion begins with a dream and ends with a murder.

If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

I'm an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women's rights.

Religion without joy-it is no religion.

The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.

Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God.

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar.

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.

Pray to God, but row towards shore.

Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.