Quotes About Faith

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

If you want a religion that makes sense, then I suggest something other than Christianity. But if you want a religion that makes life, then, I think this is the one.

God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.

Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.

In catholisism we have an entire religion based on a woman who really stuck to her story

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

I fully intend to preach the word of God to you until there's a difference between how you walk out of here and how you walked in here.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

The Christian religion and National Socialist doctrines are not compatible.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

If we have not enough in our religion . . . to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.

What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is atheism, tomorrow will be religion.

We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system - but rather a life-giving relationship with our Father.

The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion...but gambling is not nearly so corrupt.