Quotes About Religion

I don't fear God- I fear His believers.

Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.

If anyone can show me ... that there is any reason - other than fear - to believe in any version of an afterlife, I'll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.

My last fear, the fear of God, died with my faith.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Some of my fear and anxieties surrounding faith, I think, provides some good comedy for my act.

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.

Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.

The fear of Hell is a very powerful motivation.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.

Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't a God, and die to find out there is.

For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis.

Life becomes too hard when you stop believing in God.