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Quotes About Faith

Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.
~ James Taylor
To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.
~ Mark Twain
I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.
~ Samuel Johnson
the fastest-growing brand of religion is of the magical 'name it and claim it' variety, in which the deity exists only to meet one's immediate, self-identified needs.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
I believe what I practice has to do with something deeper than religion, that it embodies all religions, including Judaism. And Christianity. And Islam.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.
~ David Milne
You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.
~ Joyce Meyer
Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.
~ Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
~ Alfred de Musset, Lorenzaccio
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
~ Brian Eno
The only consistency is hostility toward Western religion.
~ Robert H. Knight
Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.
~ George Carlin
I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
At Jerusalem, I went to the mosque and sat down. A man asked me what I wanted. I told him I was a Muslim. Now I realize I can get direct contact with God, unlike Christianity or any other religion.
~ Cat Stevens
Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
~ Tom Petty
Theology is only thought applied to religion.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.
~ Mother Teresa
When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.
~ George Meredith
Our religion should be incorporated within ourselves, a part of our being that cannot be laid off.
~ Lorenzo Snow
Religion is intended to facilitate hope and faith. Much like a path is intended to facilitate a journey.
~ Max Lucado
All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure.
~ Peter Forsyth
I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.
~ Bertrand Russell
O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.
~ Sarah Trimmer