Quotes About Faith

I respect humanity. That's my religion. I can't stand these religions that are really businesses. So much money everywhere that's going to buy a really nice house in heaven - or what? I don't get it.

My love for my country is my religion.

Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.

Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.

In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.

What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.

Die before you die, there is no chance after.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.

It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

God save us from religion.

The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the Church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

What's the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don't change what's on the inside,were it really counts ?

Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood.