Quotes About Belief

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers he looks for others abroad.

The Pope is barely Catholic enough for some converts.

When people cease to believe in God they don't believe in nothing they believe in anything.

All the world's religions speak the same language, they simply use different words.

Each religion by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Faith means intense usually confident belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher as equally false and by the magistrate as equally useful.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

Religion is a way of walking not a way of talking.

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Religion converts despair which destroys into resignation which submits.

The Church of England is the Tory party at prayer.

While I cannot be regarded as a pillar I must be regarded as a buttress of the church because I support it from outside.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

If the thunder is not loud the peasant forgets to cross himself.

Infidel n: in New York one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople one who does.

The voice of the people is the voice of God. (Vox populi vox dei.)

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.

Let's all give God a great big hand. I've seen the last page of the bible and it's going to turn out all right.

There is a good deal too strange to be believed nothing is too strange to have happened.

I have a hard time believing that billions of years ago two protozoa bumped into each other under a volcanic cesspool and evolved into Cindy Crawford.

If there's a God why are there such things as famine and The Jerry Springer Show.

The first Sunday I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.