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Quotes About Faith

But what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?" "That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.
~ P. D. James
Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.
~ Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
~ Tom T. Hall
Primitive societies without religion have never been found.
~ William Dean Howells
Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.
~ Fanny Fern
Who knows most, doubts most.
~ Robert Browning
The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind
~ Ayn Rand
You got your God and so do I.
~ Jimi Hendrix
I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.
~ J. G. Holland
There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels.
~ Shadia Drury
My religion lies in my composition.
~ John Philip Sousa
There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.
~ Sinead O'Connor
No human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion
~ David Hume
If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.
~ Ray William Johnson
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.
~ Clarence Darrow
I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.
~ Muhammad Ali
Do you know what Christianity is? We believe your religion [Judaism], but you [Jews] have to obey.
~ Ann Coulter
One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God.
~ Pope Francis
...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.
~ Richard Dawkins
Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
~ Wendell Berry
I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
~ Will Smith
We are religious by nature.
~ Charles Henry Parkhurst