Quotes About Conviction

I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.

I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.

Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

Some things need to be believed to be seen.

The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

Never check your religion at the door. Not ever.

We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn't admit it.

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

The Bible itself is intolerant, and true followers of God's word should be as well.

Pure religion is having the courage to do what is right and let the consequence follow.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

We all behave as though what we think is true, is true.

A religion that doesn't discriminate wouldn't exist, because it wouldn't stand for anything.

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve grasped the truth.

The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no power.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.