Quotes About Religion

The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.

I'm absolutely confident that the God that I worship abhors violence.

If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?

If your God doesn't look like Jesus, we don't worship the same God, sorry.

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.

Many people confuse religion with God and walk away from them both. The point isn't Christianity, the point is being a Christian.

We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with.

Job can be anyone. Yahweh can be everyone's God!

We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.

If there is a God, there should be no slaves.

It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.

Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all his threats, but he never faithfully kept a promise.

It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Caesar.

I'm not there to impose my religious beliefs on anybody, or say 'this is the only way you should think'. It's up to you to decide, and God is a God of free will.

If our faith delivers us from worry, then worry is an insult flung in the face of God.

The Christian-Judaic God does not exist, and if He did exist as described in the Bible, He would certainly not be a good role model.

I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his most endearing qualities.

That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What a tragedy it is to invent a God and then suffer to keep him King.

If you believe in God, that's a belief. If you are an atheist, it's a belief too, because you cannot prove that God does not exist.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity.

You start talking about God and a lot of people are going to become very defensive.

Without God, democracy cannot and will not long endure.