Quotes About Religion

You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.

I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.

If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion.

Faith is important to me.

The gifts of the Gospel are given to strengthen the faith of the believer.

My faith dictates a whole lot of what I'll do.

Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.

The faith I was born into formed me.

I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands of years old and have long traditions.

No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

The great thing about America is you can live according to your faith. If you're faith says don't use birth control then you don't use it.

The essence of our Faith consists simply in this freedom of the Ishta.

The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.

At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.

I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.

Do not confuse McGuinty's belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being scientifically disproven.

To a lot of people, angels are a matter of faith.

I think that today, faith drives so much of our politics, that I thought, "If you don't talk about it, you are missing a whole big part of what is going on politically."

I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.' Now I know that both faith and intellect are components of religious belief.

All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

Faith is the fool's excuse.