Quotes About Faith

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.

It is easier to get rid of one's religion than to get rid of one's sins.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

God is something that needs rescuing from religion.

I'd rather be a born-once hog than a born-again Christian any day.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.

'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.

Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

Without God there would be no freedom to believe what you want.

It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.

Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.

Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.

Basketball is like Religion. Many attend but few understand.

Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

God is love and if you are ready, he always is.