Quotes About Belief

Asking, "If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?" is like asking, "If there is no master, whose slave will I be?" If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom who should detest.

Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits.

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost?

Perhaps the funniest example is that of the Rev. Milton Barfoot, who said to Dan's brother, in apparently honest bafflement, "But, isn't Dan afraid of hell?" No, Reverend, Dan doesn't believe in hell anymore, that's one of the things about being an atheist, you see.

The short life of Jesus can hardly compare with the suffering of brave heretics who have been persecuted for criticizing Christianity, or with the agony of the "witches" who were burned, drowned and hanged by bible believers (quoting Exodus 22:18: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live"). Nor

Jesus supposedly lived sometime between 4 B.C.E. and 30 C.E., but there is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers, not during his entire lifetime.

But when our faith causes us to check our brains at the door, we have fallen far from the God who gave us the capacity for reason.

For us to close our mind to scientific reasoning without using our best critical thinking is to refuse to use our God-given capacity for understanding.

Self-deceived religious people may be the most dangerous people in the world, because they are convinced that their cause is of God and their victory endorsed by God.

Nobody is more indoctrinated than the indoctrinator.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.

Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.

Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

Faith ? acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.

What really matters is what you believe.

Smith believed that the best way to promote trade was to trust to the self-interest and inventiveness of individual traders.

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when it's Mighty Founder was a child Himself. Charles Dickens

Organized religion is horseshit. Spirituality -- the spirituality that I've come to know and experience -- has nothing to do with religion. Were it not for my relationship with a God of my experience I would be dead. Actually I did die. Now I'm this other guy with a pencil in one hand and a bullhorn in the other.

Fake it 'til you make it.

In Jerusalem, belief as a form of aggression achieved near perfection. Whether you went deep in the earth or climbed the highest hill, someone's faith would track you down, catch you in its sights, and demand that you choose sides.

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

Action is what separates a belief from an opinion. Beliefs are imprinted through actions.