Quotes About Faith

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

These people [the Christians] watched the Flintstones as if it were a documentary.

Satan's first strategy is to keep religion intellectual.

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

The plain fact is: religion must die for mankind to live.

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.

If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.

Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck.

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind.

True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?

I have no religion. But culturally I can't escape it; I'm very Jewish.

Christianity is in its very essence a resurrection religion. The concept of resurrection lies at its heart. If you remove it, Christianity is destroyed.

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion.

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.