Quotes About Belief

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.

The Europeans have fallen away from religion and the church while the rest of the world is seemingly more religious. I don't know how to explain it.

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.

I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.

Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.

My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.

There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power involved in this.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

Science has taken away our religion.

No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies.

If you ignore every single thing Jesus told you to do, you are just auditing. You're not a Christian.

I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.

My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

Myth is someone else's religion.

Save me from this road I'm on, Jesus take the wheel.

Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves.