Quotes About Belief

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko

The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.

One mans cult is another mans religion.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.

Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish.

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

All over the world, belief in the supernatural has authorised the sacrifice of people to propitiate bloodthirsty gods, and the murder of witches for their malevolent powers.

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one.

True love is like religion. It is full of devotion and free of doubt.

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.