Quotes About Belief

Religion considers the Universe deterministic and science considers it probabilistic — an important distinction.

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.

Religion is being locked in and you can't get out; atheism, the other side of the door.

There are ten church members by inheritance for every one by conviction.

I think I'll believe in Gosh instead of God. If you don't believe in Gosh too, you'll be darned to heck.

If God doesn't like the way I live, let him tell me, not you.

Religion seems to have a way of making people abandon logic.

One day someone should start a religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ.

The Christian Right is neither.

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

Science is the record of dead religions.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

God did not give wings to scorpions.

The road to self-belief is potholed.

The believing we do something when we do nothing, is the first illusion of tobacco.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

Somewhere in the Andes, they believe to this very day that the future is behind you. It comes up from behind your back, surprising and unforeseeable, while the past is always before your eyes, that which has already happened. When they talk about the past, the people of the Aymara tribe point in front of them. You walk forward facing the past and you turn back towards the future.

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty is not just the lack of food, shelter, and clothing. Real poverty is the belief that the purpose of life is acquiring wealth and owning things. Real wealth is not the possession of property but the recognition that our deepest need, as human beings, is to keep developing our natural and acquired powers to relate to other human beings.

Mother always says that when things seem to be in a tangle to us it's just that God is executing an especially intricate and marvelous pattern in our lives, and we must be pliable in His hands, so as not to hinder. Lord, have Thy way with me today!