Quotes About Religion

When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.

World War II proves there's no God.

Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.

Either there is a God or there isn't. Both possibilities are frightening.

Religion is the most powerful alternative to God.

I'm more Jewish than you think I am...I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God's chosen people.

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

Christianity alone teaches that our only way for reconciliation with God is by his grace that is received through faith.

Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

No atheist says there is no god!

One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.

Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence pointing to God.

Don't seek to lead people to a God you have ceased to believe in.

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

You ain't gotta go to church to find your God.

If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.