Quotes About Belief

A lot of people have many misconceptions about religion. I know what I'm talking about for myself. My mind is very ordered, so to speak. I need to put things in order.

It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ.

One of the reasons I write about religion is due to my own envy of people who truly feel the presence of god in their lives, good souls who believe devoutly in a supreme being and an afterlife.

I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able to do it myself.

No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith.

I consider the Christian religion so important, [Jesus is] somebody I can totally rely on in my own mind.

Religion is not so bad, unless you believe it.

I'm strongly into the Bible; I'm strongly into God and religion.I'm pro-life and different things.

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

Freedom has its roots in religion.

To God's own heart be true.

God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.

My religion is no garment to be put on and off with the weather. You had better know that, all of you. I shall worship as I please and hope for all men to worship as they please in Scotland.

But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit that tragedies like this one at Virginia Tech help to do that!

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that.

Religion is a light in the fog.

You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.

Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.

What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.