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Quotes About Belief

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.
~ Saint Augustine
This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.
~ Saint Augustine
I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
~ Salman Rushdie
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
~ Samuel Butler
Why does one need a doctor if God has given us our body and we pray to Him for our help?
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Oh, I don't talk about God.
~ Shepard Smith
No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.
~ Simone Weil
The notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters, lies at the heart of all Christian theology, and is the mainspring of all Christian living.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
He whom God chooseth, out of doubt doth well: What they that choose their God do, who can tell?
~ Sir Fulke Greville
What is God trying to tell me? ... I'm just so tired. Why are people sabotaging me? Why, when I try to do something right, do people get angry?
~ Spencer Haywood
There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.
~ Stephen Fry
never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.
~ Stephen King, The Dark Tower
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
~ James Martineau
I am thankful that all the people in the world who absolutely, positively, know what God wants, usually kill mostly each other.
~ Elayne Boosler
I can't imagine God not allowing my dog into heaven.
~ Rick Warren
Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.
~ Alberta Hunter
My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.
~ Dean Rusk
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
The gods have become our diseases.
~ C.G. Jung
If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
There's a monumental difference in believing in God and believing God.
~ Andy Stanley