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Quotes About Faith

If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate.
~ Carly Fiorina
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
~ Matthew Arnold
All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.
~ Richard Dawkins
Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.
~ Peter Forsyth
I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.
~ John Keats
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
~ Black Elk
We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn't admit it.
~ Daniel Dennett
I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin.
~ John Wesley
to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.
~ Ayn Rand
For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.
~ Gene Roddenberry
Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.
~ Henry Demarest Lloyd
You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
~ Pope John Paul II
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.
~ Frans de Waal
Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.
~ John Wesley
I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.
~ Salman Rushdie
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.
~ Sigmund Freud
I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.
~ Frederick Douglass
It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.
~ Penn Jillette
If you have some problem in your life and you need to deal with it then use religion it's fine. I use Google.
~ Simon Amstell