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Quotes About Religion

Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't.
~ John Green
God is a concept by which we measure our pain. I'll say it again. God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
~ John Lennon
He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.
~ John Locke
I think the worst way to go is to have somebody think they speak for God. If you look at history, every nation that has operated as if it spoke for God has become violently destructive.
~ John Shelby Spong
I believe that God is very real.
~ John Shelby Spong
The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.
~ John Steinbeck
The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.
~ John Stuart Mill
Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be God.
~ John Updike
Dad, because you are my father it's been easy to believe in God.
~ John Walter Bratton
To wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker.
~ John Wolcot
Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace.
~ Jonathan Haidt
God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.
~ Jonathan Sacks
If god exists, he is not to be believed in.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Death is the inventor of God.
~ Jose Saramago
Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
~ Joseph de Maistre
We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.
~ Joseph Joubert
If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.
~ Joseph McCabe
We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
I believe all that God ever revealed, and I never hear of a man being damned for believing too much; but they are damned for unbelief.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind.
~ Julian Jaynes
I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.
~ Karen Armstrong
I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.
~ Kate Horsley
I'm not Buddhist, I'm not Hindu, I'm not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God.
~ Katy Perry