Quotes About Faith

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Music is my higher power

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.

gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.

It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

New Testament Christians witnessed — not because they had to — but because they could not help it.

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.

I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to believe in Allah as the God.