Quotes About Faith

Ultimately, I hope Jesus will save Buddhism, Islam and every other religion, including the Christian religion, which often seems to need saving about as much as any other religion does.

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

Adversity reminds men of religion.

Some things need to be believed to be seen.

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family was very religious, and I really experienced God.

Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

There is zero evidence for god.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.

I am a skeptic...Global warming has become a new religion.

There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be.

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

Should I act violently in defense of my religion, absolutely.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.