Quotes About Belief

Those of little faith are of little hatred.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

Saints are usually killed by their own people.

I took to religion at about age 12; it was very hard for me to be Sabbath observant as a kid in a home which was not Sabbath observant. I think my parents thought the whole Jewish thing was a phase.

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

I'm certainly not interested in religion for religion's sake or for some kind of structure or stabilizing force. Religion is supposed to be for God's sake and God is an unpredictable, wild thing.

A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.

Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

Many are called impious, not for having a worse, but a different religion from their neighbors; and many atheistical, not for the denying of God, but for thinking somewhat peculiarly concerning him.

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

Religion isn't yours firsthand until you doubt it right down to the ground.

Show true religion, cause words don't relieve

I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.

Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.

Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes.

Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.

Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.

Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows.

In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

A belief is an uneducated guess.