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Quotes About Faith

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.
~ C. S. Lewis
Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
~ H. L. Mencken
Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.
~ J. C. Ryle
Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.
~ John Calvin
The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.
~ Mark Twain
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
~ Samuel Butler
Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics.
~ Rajneesh
Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?
~ Horace Greeley
Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
~ Sigmund Freud
I do engineering, not religion.
~ Daniel J. Bernstein
Christianity is a religion for losers.
~ Ted Turner
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
~ C.S. Lewis
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
~ Adam Phillips, On Balance
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
The death of God left the angels in a strange position.
~ Donald Barthelme
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
~ Bette Davis
Spirituality is not a religion... It is a way of life.
~ Anthony D. Williams
Pope Francis said that atheists are still eligible to go to heaven. To return the favor, atheists said Popes are still eligible to go into a void of nothingness.
~ Conan O'Brien
When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.
~ C. S. Lewis
He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.
~ Carl Sagan
When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.
~ Sivananda
With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'
~ Matt Stone