Quotes About Belief

Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?

How can we be so confident that we are correct about the religion of Islam that it is really different in this insidious way and people 50 years from now, people aren't going to back on.

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize the validity of any religion other than its own.

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.

Communists disavow the existence of God and religion. They hate it, because it's a competitor.

No religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.

I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.

I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion.

Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.

The God of religion exists only in our minds. The real God exists but we can never comprehend him in our minds

I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.

all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.