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Quotes About Faith

I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The Christian religion begins with a dream and ends with a murder.
~ Thomas Paine
If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.
~ David Eller
Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
~ George Santayana
Religion without joy-it is no religion.
~ Theodore Parker
As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.
~ Tony Evans
The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.
~ Samuel Chadwick
Myth is what we call other people's religion.
~ Joseph Campbell
He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.
~ Paulo Coelho
Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God.
~ Stephen King, The Stand
the church should just stay out of people's pants.
~ Alex Sanchez, The God Box
I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.
~ Jim Butcher, Death Masks
You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.
~ Hillary Jordan, When She Woke
Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.
~ Noam Chomsky
Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin, Voices
Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.
~ Michael Crichton, Next
It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.
~ Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
Pray to God, but row towards shore.
~ Lee Ezell
Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
~ Wally Lamb
The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion
~ Anthony Trollope
Religion turned some folks belligerent.
~ Eileen Wilks, On the Prowl
I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.
~ Keith Ablow, Denial
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.
~ Pete Hautman