Quotes About Belief

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

Beware the god who cannot laugh.

I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.

Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.

Even though I don't believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.

Whither should we aim if not towards God?

Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.

God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn't press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew that God existed as the Correct Answer inside my chest.

I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.

Don't worry. Just leave everything in the hands of God.

Verily we are from God, and to Him shall we return!

I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world.

I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.

It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.