Quotes About Belief

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.

Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.

Where there is fear there is no religion.

Religion dies hard in the Irish.

The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.

The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.

Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.

The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it.

In the absence of fear there is little faith.

I don't feel any part of religion. I think the Bible is God's gift of salvation that He gave me because I trusted in Him when I was six year-old. It was a gift and I didn't earn it.

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion.

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.

The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

Religion will never show the way.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

I broke with my religion in college.

You may be frustrated with religion, but don't take that out on God.