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Quotes About Faith

I don't approve of religion.
~ Ayn Rand
Religion gives a dignity to distress.
~ James Hervey
Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].
~ Darrel Ray
Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly in the host until something evokes it.
~ Darrel Ray
Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
~ Langston Hughes
Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire.
~ Joseph Smith Jr.
When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.
~ Marshall Brickman
We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.
~ Bono
I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen
~ Pat Barker, Regeneration
A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.
~ Vance Havner
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
~ John Henry Newman
First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.
~ James Clavell, Sh?gun
Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.
~ William Peter Blatty
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
~ Albert Camus
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
~ John Ortberg, Faith and Doubt
There cannot possibly be a god in heaven watching all of this calmly.
~ Ravi Shankar
Scientology...is not a religion.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Americans understand we fight not a religion; ours is not a campaign against the Muslim faith. Ours is a campaign against evil.
~ George W. Bush
Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.
~ Vera Farmiga
The motive of fear is the be-all and end-all of religion.
~ H. L. Mencken
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Shall it be a religion or shall it be Christ? Shall it be churchianity or shall it be Jesus Christ? Shall it be pride or shall it be humility in Jesus Christ?
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer